Description
Book SynopsisThe Intelligent Clinician''s Guide to the DSM-5 is the second edition of the widely-read book first published in 2013. This 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.The Intelligent Clinician''s Guide to the DSM-5, Second Edition reviews the history of diagnosis in psychiatry, emphasizing the limitations for classification of our current lack of knowledge of the causes of most mental disorders. It emphasizes that, in the absence of biomarkers, current categories can only be considered provisional. It takes a critical look at schema for spectra and dimensionaliztion of diagnosis, examines the borders between normality and psychopathology, and discusses the problem of clinical utility. The book has chapters on all the major diagnoses in psychiatry, in which the main problems of diagnosis are addressed, and in which all changes in DSM-5 are described.
Trade Review"[T]his is an excellent critique of the DSM-5 that astutely assesses the shortcomings as well as improvements of this latest DSM." --Doody's
Table of ContentsPart I: Diagnostic Principles ; Chapter 1-Introduction ; Chapter 2-The history of diagnosis in psychiatry ; Chapter 3-How diagnostic manuals are made ; Chapter 4-What is and is not a mental disorder ; Chapter 5-Diagnostic validity ; Chapter 6-Dimensionality ; Chapter 7-Clinical utility ; Part II: Specific Diagnoses ; Chapter 8-Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychoses ; Chapter 9-Bipolar and related disorders ; Chapter 10-Depressive disorders ; Chapter 11-Anxiety disorders, trauma, and the OCD spectrum ; Chapter 12- Substance abuse, eating, and sexual disorders ; Chapter 13-Neurodevelopmental and disruptive behavioral disorders ; Chapter 14-Personality disorders ; Chapter 15-Other diagnostic groups ; Part III-Overview ; Chapter 16-Responses to DSM-5 ; Chapter 17-DSM-5 in practice ; Chapter 18-A guide for the perplexed
