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  • Myths of Trauma

    Why Adversity Does Not Necessarily Make Us Sick

    by Joel Paris ...
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and sometimes debilitating mental disorder. Yet only about one in ten people who are exposed to significant traumatic events develop PTSD. Since its inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in 1980, the definition of PTSD has been controversial. Various changes made to the criteria have gradually widened the diagnostic criteria, ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5®

    by Joel Paris ...
    The 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 ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

    A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

    by Joel Paris, MD ...
    Acclaimed for its wisdom and no-nonsense style, this authoritative guide has now been revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting a decade of advances in the field. Distinguished psychiatrist Joel Paris distills current knowledge about borderline personality disorder (BPD) and reviews what works in diagnosis and treatment. Rather than advocating a particular therapy, Paris guides ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry

    How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes

    by Joel Paris ...
    Dr. Joel Paris' Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments in contemporary psychiatry. The last 30 years of psychiatry have seen the development of a system of classification aimed at establishing greater scientific credibility. Unfortunately, the current categories are based entirely on signs and symptoms rather than on ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Psychotherapy in An Age of Neuroscience

    by Joel Paris ...
    Psychotherapy In an Age of Neuroscience is a critique of the neuroscience model that dominates contemporary psychiatric practice. It shows that while the neurosciences have made great advances, this line of research has thus far had little application to the care of patients. It criticizes the over-use of psychopharmacological interventions for common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Nature and Nurture in Personality and Psychopathology

    A Guide for Clinicians

    by Joel Paris ...
    Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and nurture in the pathways to psychopathology. Some clinicians offer treatment almost entirely based on neuroscience. Some psychologists offer psychotherapies almost entirely based on the impact of environmental stressors. Paris argues for a balanced middle ground between nature and nurture in human development. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG

    by Joel Paris ...
    The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG 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 ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Prescriptions for the Mind

    A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry

    by Joel Paris ...
    The practice of psychiatry has undergone great changes in recent years. In this book, Joel Paris, MD, a veteran psychiatrist, provides a fluently written and accessible "state-of-the-field" assessment. Himself a clinician, researcher, and teacher, Paris focuses on the most striking change within the field - the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. Where ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Half in Love with Death

    Managing the Chronically Suicidal Patient

    by Joel Paris ...
    The second edition of Half in Love with Death gives therapists new tools to help manage chronically suicidal patients. Clinicians will learn how to tolerate suicidality, understand the inner world of patients, avoid repeated hospitalizations, and focus on life situations that maintain suicidal ideas and behaviors. This new edition includes a number of major updates and a new chapter on the ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry

    by Joel Paris ...
    This text examines the fads and fallacies, both past and present, that have plagued psychiatric diagnosis, treatments and research. It argues that such practices have led to an over-diagnosis of conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD and autism. It examines the over-treatment of psychiatric disorders with pharmaceuticals, and asks if neuroscience will actually hold the answers ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry

    How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes

    by Joel Paris ...
    Dr. Joel Paris's Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments. The last 30 years of psychiatry have seen the development of a system of classification aimed at establishing greater scientific credibility. Unfortunately, the current categories are based entirely on signs and symptoms rather than on causes, which remain unknown ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Bipolar Spectrum

    Diagnosis or Fad?

    by Joel Paris ...
    In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum demonstrates, medicine has often been prone to fads that are assumed correct until proven wrong by ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD