The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5

About this book

The Intelligent Clinicians 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 psychiatrys 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 jurys still out. Along the way The Intelligent Clinicians 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.