Joel Paris: 12 books
The Use and Misuse of Psychiatric Drugs
An Evidence-Based Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
"Dr. Paris has written an honest, balanced presentation of the ways in which psychiatric drugs are evaluated and prescribed. He highlights the complexity of the task, the limits of what is known and the mixed picture that research often produces. His conclusions are refreshing because they are...
The Bipolar Spectrum
Diagnosis or Fad?
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
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...
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry.
While...
Personality Disorders Over Time
Precursors, Course, and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Treating personality disorders can be extremely frustrating for clinicians. As a result, many doctors get caught in a cycle of diagnosing and rediagnosing in an attempt to find an approach that works. In Personality Disorders Over Time: Precursors, Course, and Outcome, Joel Paris, M.D., proposes a...
Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry
How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
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...
Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range...
Half in Love With Death
Managing the Chronically Suicidal Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Half in Love With Death presents a new way for therapists to manage chronically suicidal patients, an incredibly challenging task for clinicians and one where an insufficient amount of literature exists to guide professionals. Author Joel Paris suggests an approach that defies conventional wisdoms...
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
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,...
Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder
Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Synthesizing the latest research and treatment developments, Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible aims to make treatment for borderling personality disorder (BPD) more accessible by providing clinicians with innovative brief and targeted...
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Published in 2000, Myths of Childhood is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology.
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
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...
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
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...