Download or read book The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5? written by Joel Paris MD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5? explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where DSM-5 is right, where it is wrong, and where the jury's still out. Along the way, The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5? sifts through the many public controversies and clinical debates surrounding the drafting of the manual and shows how they inform a modern understanding of psychiatric illness, diagnosis and treatment. This book is necessary reading for all mental health professionals as they grapple with the first major revision of the DSM to appear in over 30 years.