PEP | Article - Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. By the PDM Task Force. Silver Spring, MD: Alliance of Psychoanalytic Organizations, 2006, 857 pp., $45.00 hardcover, $35.00 paperback.

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Abstract

The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) is the reply of organized psychoanalysis to the DSM-III of 1980 and the three diagnostic revisions that have followed. It is an official nosology, sponsored by five major psychoanalytic organizations1 and written by a task force chaired by Stanley Greenspan and including Eve Caligor, Peter Fonagy, Leon Hoffman, Otto and Paulina Kernberg, Nancy McWilliams, Joseph Palombo, Howard Shevrin, Drew Westen, Robert Wallerstein, and a score of other contributors