Complete List of DSM Codes Used in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Mental health professionals who make formal diagnoses of psychological disorders, such as psychiatrists, employ standardized lists of clinically observable symptoms to ensure some degree of uniformity and consistency of diagnosis across the profession. The most widely-used standard is set by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or DSM for short), which typically defines a diagnosis in terms of the presence of some sub-set of an overall list of symptoms.

This section provides the complete list of DSM-IV codes in three different formats:

• DSM Codes by Disorder Name
• DSM Codes Disorder Category
• DSM Codes by Code Number