The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5

Joel Paris, MD, was born in New York City, but has spent most of his life in Canada. He obtained an MD from McGill University in 1964, where he also trained in psychiatry. Dr. Paris has been a member of the McGill psychiatry department since 1972 and served as Department Chair from 1997 to 2007. He has published 178 peer-reviewed articles, 14 books and 40 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Introduction ; Part I: Diagnostic Principles ; Chapter 1-The history of diagnosis in psychiatry ; Chapter 2-How diagnostic manuals are made ; Chapter 3-What is (and is not) a mental disorder ; Chapter 4-Diagnostic validity ; Chapter 5-Dimensionality ; Chapter 6-Clinical utility ; Part II: Specific Diagnoses ; Chapter 7-Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychoses ; Chapter 8-Bipolar and related disorders ; Chapter 9-Depressive disorders ; Chapter 10-Anxiety disorders, trauma, and the obsessive-compulsive spectrum ; Chapter 11- Substance use, eating, and sexual disorders ; Chapter 12-Neurodevelopmental and disruptive behavioral disorders ; Chapter 13-Personality disorders ; Chapter 14-Other diagnostic groupings ; Part III-Overview ; Chapter 15-A guide for the perplexed