
The fifth edition ( DSM-5) of the criteria required seven years of planning, six years of actual work group activity, and a year to finalize the materials for publication and obtain the approval of the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees.

Therefore, this article will refer to these two versions together as DSM-IV/-TR.
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Although the subsequent DSM-IV text revision edition of the manual ( DSM-IV-TR) revised the text accompanying the criteria, the diagnostic criteria for PTSD did not change in this version. The literature accumulating during this time presented various polemical arguments concerning the definition of trauma and even questioning the need for it in the definition of PTSD, which and how many symptoms to include in the PTSD criteria and how they should be grouped, and even whether PTSD is a valid diagnosis at all. Following publication of the fourth edition of the DSM ( DSM-IV) in 1994, PTSD experts criticized the criteria extensively, proposing myriad ways to address the problems they identified. With each revision of the DSM, the criteria for PTSD have changed substantially.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has attracted controversy since its introduction as a psychiatric disorder in the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-III) in 1980.
