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The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG is the second edition of a widely-read book first published in 2013 that examines DSM-5 in detail. The second edition is thoroughly revised, and has several new chapters describing the response to the publication of the new manual, as well as suggestions on its use in clinical practice.

Joel Paris discusses the over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this trend on clinical care. The book opens with a careful review of scientific evidence that verifies that diagnoses of bipolar disorder are often made on dubious grounds.

This book examines fads and fallacies, both past and present, that plague psychiatry, both in diagnosis and in treatment. These include overdiagnosis (especially of depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD and autism), overtreatment with pharmaceuticals and the assumption that neuroscience has all the answers.

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Explains the personality disorders and their treatment in terms of a broad biopsychosocial model.

The message of this book is that psychiatrists have some very good drugs, but can expect bad results when they are over-used, prescribed outside of evidence-based indications, or given to the wrong patients. While acknowledging that many current agents are highly effective and have revolutionized the treatment of certain disorders, Joel Paris criticizes their use outside of an evidence base. Too many patients are either over-medicated or are m...

Clients with personality disorders (PDs) present special challenges to clinicians. Nonetheless, successful treatment is possible, and a rapidly growing research base can inform diagnosis and intervention. This book reviews what we know and what we don't know about PDs, and what this implies for clinical practice. It integrates a large body of research findings into a concise, highly practical approach to managing difficult clients. Rather ...

Personality disorders have only recently been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need a sharper definition. This book interprets the personality disorders as products of the interaction between social influences and other etiological factors as part of a broad biopsychosocial model, and explains how personality traits develop into personality disorders. Strongly oriented toward recent empirical findings, the author argu...

Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to the checks and balances of academia, and who did not subscribe to the tenets of scientific medicine. The revolution against psychoanalytic dominance began when a group of psychiatrists developed an evidence-based model that brought psychiatry back i...

A person's traits are strongly influenced by genetic factors and do not undergo radical change over the individual's lifetime. Therefore, the therapist needs to work with them, so as to help patients make use of their underlying personality characteristics in a more adaptive way.

Fra i più articolati e ricchi quadri clinici, i pazienti con disturbo borderline di personalità rappresentano una straordinaria sfida per psicologi clinici, psicoterapeuti, psichiatri e operatori della salute mentale. Negli ultimi anni le conoscenze scientifiche relative a questo disturbo si sono fatte via via più forti con ricadute nelle tecniche di intervento e nel trattamento. Questo volume rappresenta lo stato dell'arte e fornisce chiavi d...

Half in Love With Death "presents a new way for therapists to manage chronically suicidal patients, an incredibly challenging task for clinicians, and one where an insufficient amount of literature exists to guide professionals. Author Joel Paris s

Myths of Childhood represents an important addition to the ongoing debate between mental health professionals regarding nature vs. nurture. For supporters of either side , this book is a valuable resource for further exploration of this controversy.

Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range of therapies and identifies the core ingredients of effective intervention. He offers specific guidance for meeting the needs of this challenging p...