of lack of acknowledgement of environmental influences, inappropriateness of the medical model, and professional territorial rights would continue to plague the American Psychiatric Association throughout the development of DSM-III, its successor, the DSM-III-R, and the DSM-IV.
The final, official version of the DSM-III was published in 1980. Several major content changes were immediately obvious. First of all, the list of diagnoses had been expanded from 20 to over 200. Many of the diagnoses in the DSM-II had been renamed, subtyped, and/or split into several parts. Further, The DSM-III was organized around five separate axes. Axis I contained the clinical syndromes, while Axis II delineated the personality disorders and specific developmental disorders. Axis III covered pertinent physical disorders/conditions. These three axes were utilized to make an official diagnostic assessment, and only the first two were required for statistical reporting (Robins & Helzer, 1986). The two remaining axes were considered optional and experimental. Axis IV inv
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