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Mark Zimmerman, MD
Medical College of Pennsylvania at EPPI 3200 Henry Ave Philadelphia, PA 19428

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1990;47(10):974-976.

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To the Editor.—

I wrote an article for the December 1988 issue of the ARCHIVES in which I posed the question, "Why Are We Rushing to Publish DSM-IV?"¹ When I wrote that article DSM-IV was scheduled for publication in 1992, 5 years after the DSM-III-R publication date.²I delineated a number of problems that might result from the publication of a third DSM edition in 12 years. In brief, these problems are the following: (1) an insufficient amount of time between DSM editions to allow the accumulation of replicated research necessary to justify a change in diagnostic criteria; (2) the expenditure of resources to compare the new diagnostic criteria with the old and thus reduce the effort toward discovering pathophysiologic mechanisms; (3) difficulties in interpreting and resolving discrepant research findings based on different criteria sets; (4) an increased number of diagnostic errors because of the lack of time . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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