Dx Revision Directory

Update: New site for monitoring development of DSM-5 and ICD-11 here:

Dx Revision Watch

http://dxrevisionwatch.wordpress.com/

Dx Revision Directory

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Keywords

APA DSM DSM-IV DSM-V DSM-5 DSM5 WHO ICD ICD-10 ICD-11 American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders World Health Organization Classifications DSM Revision Process DSM-V Task Force DSM-V Somatic Distress Disorders Work Group Somatic Symptom Disorders Work Group DSM-ICD Harmonization Coordination Group International Advisory Group Revision of ICD Mental and Behavioural Disorders Global Scientific Partnership Coordination Group ICD Update and Revision Platform WHO Collaborating Centre CISSD Project MUPSS Project Somatoform Somatisation Somatization Functional Somatic Syndromes FSS MUS Myalgic encephalomyelitis ME Chronic fatigue syndrome CFS Fibromyalgia FM IBS CS CI GWS

Latest on DSM-5:

The April 2009 report of the APA DSM-V Somatic Distress Disorders Work Group (also known as the “Somatic Symptom Disorders”) can be read on the APA’s site here: http://tinyurl.com/DSMSDDWGApril09

The Editorial: The proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V to replace somatoform disorders in DSM-IV – a preliminary report by DSM-V Work Group members, Joel Dimsdale and Francis Creed was published in the June issue of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and expands on the proposals in the April 2009 update.

Free access to both text and PDF versions of this Editorial at:

http://journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/psr/current

http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0022-3999/PIIS0022399909000889.pdf

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(09)00088-9/fulltext

Psychiatric Times website maintains a page of resources for the current edition of DSM, DSM-IV, with updates and commentary around the development of DSM-V.

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Latest in the “Elephant in the Room” series of reports here:

Opinion on DSM-V revision: Psychiatric Times and New Scientist, 9 December (11.12.09)

Press Release: DSM-5 Publication Date Moved to May 2013 (10.12.09)

The Elephant in the Room Series Four: New papers in Jan 10 Journal of Psychosomatic Research (10.12.09)

Action for M.E. and Facebook; CISSD Final Report finally published (30.10.09)

Journal of Psychosomatic Research In Press: Is there a better term than “Medically unexplained symptoms”? (24.10.09)

Building a resource around the American Psychiatric Association DSM Revision Process towards DSM-V, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders towards ICD-11 and the ICD-DSM Harmonization Process, the aim of which is to “facilitate uniformity and harmonization” between ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders and DSM-V.

Revision of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) has been underway since 1999. The approved version of the next edition, DSM-V, is anticipated to be finalised in May 2012 (draft expected early 2010) (publication date revised 10 December 2009 to May 2013). Meanwhile, the WHO is revising the classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders as a part of its overall revision of ICD-10. This process has been underway since April 2007. The Alpha draft version of ICD-11 is expected to be completed in 2010, followed by a year for commentary and consultation with an anticipated dissemination date of 2014.

In order to assist the ME community and other interested parties in navigating these complex harmonization and revision processes, I have compiled a DSM-V and ICD-11 “Directory”. This 20 page document collates links for key documents and notes around the APA DSM-V and WHO ICD-11 development processes and also around the CISSD (Conceptual Issues in Somatoform and Similar Disorders) Project. This international project, undertaken between 2003 and 2007 was co-ordinated by Dr Richard Sykes, PhD, former Director of Westcare UK. The proceedings of three Workshops, convened by CISSD Project Chairs, Prof Kurt Kroenke and Prof Michael Sharpe, has informed both the DSM-V and ICD-11 development processes. Five members of the CISSD Project Work Group participated in the APA Beijing planning conference and four members also sit on the DSM-V Somatic Symptom Disorders Work Group. Two members of the CISSD Project are now members of the DSM-V Task Force (J Escobar and J Dimsdale).

Over the last four years, the DSM revision process has spawned dozens of papers around the so-called “Somatoform Disorders” and “Functional somatic syndromes”. The Directory also lists selected journal papers, reviews and commentaries, including papers resulting out of the CISSD Project and the APA’s 2006 Beijing research planning Symposium “Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders”. The Directory will be updated as new information becomes available.