Psychiatry for Physicians - Classification, Part - 4

In the last part of the article we have discussed up to Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in classification. Rest of the main categories of disorders in DSM will be discussed in this and the next part. Serial numbers of the classes presented in these two parts are continuation from the last. Starting from mood disorders they are as follows -

f) Mood disorders It is divided into

1) Depressive disorders
2) Bipolar disorder

Depressive disorder is further divided into

1) Major depressive disorder
2) Dysthymic disorder

Bipolar disorder is further divided into

1) Bipolar I
2) Bipolar II
3) Cyclothymic disorder

g) Anxiety disorders Categories of disorders appearing in this section are

1) Panic disorder
2) Panic disorder with agoraphobia
3) Agoraphobia
4) Specific phobias
5) Social phobia
6) Obsessive compulsive disorder
7) Post traumatic stress disorder
8) Acute stress disorder
9) Generalized anxiety disorder
10) Anxiety disorder due to general medical condition
11) Substance induced anxiety disorder
12) Anxiety disorder NOS

h) Somatoform disorder This class of disorders include

1) Somatization disorder
2) Conversion disorder
3) Hypochondriasis
4) Body dysmorphic disorder
5) Pain disorder
6) Undifferentiated somatoform disorder

i) Factitious disorder The main category in it is the Factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs and symptoms , which is also known as Munchausen s syndrome.

j) Dissociative disorder The disorders that fall in this category are

1) Dissociative identity
2) Depersonalization disorder
3) Dissociative amnesia
4) Dissociative fugue

k) Sexual and gender identity disorders The disorders included in this type are

1) Sexual dysfunction
2) Paraphilias
3) Gender identity disorder

l) Eating disorder Two categories are included in it

1) Anorexia nervosa
2) Bulimia nervosa

The rest of the disorders will be listed in the following part of the article. It will be the last part describing classification of psychiatric disorders, though there are many subtypes of the disorders mentioned in this part and also in the next part.