What is the most recent version of the DSM?
The current version of the DSM, called the DSM-IV-TR, was published in July 2000. This is considered to be a minor revision in that changes were, for the most part, confined to the descriptive text that accompanied each disorder. The most recent major revision was DSM-IV, published in 1994. In all, there have been 4 major revisions of the DSM. The first edition of the DSM was published in 1952. Subsequent revisions included DSM-II, (published in 1968), DSM-III (published in 1980), DSM-III-R (published in 1987), and DSM-IV (published in 1994).
