![]() ![]() The US Navy revised the Medical 203 to formulate the “Standard Classified Nomenclature of Disease” or the “Standard”. During World War II, the US army prepared a manual of medical illnesses called the ‘ Medical 203’. The American Medico-Psychological Association was later renamed APA in 1921. The manual was designed for the use of Institutions for the Insane. ![]() In 1918, the American Medico-Psychological Association published a manual of classification of mental illnesses that listed 22 categories. Inaccurately defined categories of mental illness like mania, melancholia, monomania, general paralysis of the insane, dementia, and dipsomania were included in the US Census of 1880. Mental illnesses were then classified under a single category of idiocy/insanity. Earliest documented efforts to gather epidemiological data on mental illness commenced in the USA in the year 1840. ![]()
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