Making the DSM-5

Joel Paris, MD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, and Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital. James Phillips, MD, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He is in the private practice of general and forensic psychiatry. In the Yale department he is involved in residency training, the Hispanic Clinic, and the Global Mental Health Committee. He has a long involvement with the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, serving as Secretary and as editor of the Bulletin of AAPP.

From the reviews: "Making the DSM-5, is an edited book comprising 11 chapters, eight of which were written by individuals who listed medical school affiliations. ... is a consistently engaging and thought-provoking read. ... the authors address issues that the leaders of the DSM-5 process generally seemed to ignore. ... should be required reading of any task force members who attempt to create the DSM-6." (Roger Blashfield, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (14), April, 2014) "This book addresses the formation of the DSM-5 and the problems with the manual itself. ... The audience includes anyone interested in the field of mental health and the DSM-5 in particular. ... It will definitely open readers' eyes to how little we still know and how artificial our constructs are for understanding mental illness. It is a short book and I would highly recommend taking the time to read it." (Brett C. Plyler, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2013)

• The History of DSM.- Considering the Economy of DSM Alternatives.- The Ideology behind DSM-5.- The Biopolitics of Defining “Mental Disorder”.- Establishing Normative Validity for Scientific Psychiatric Nosology: The Significance of Integrating Patient Perspectives.- The Paradox of Professional Success: Grand Ambition, Furious Resistance, and the Derailment of the DSM-5 Revision.- DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser.- Overdiagnosis, Underdiagnosis, Synthesis: A Dialectic for Psychiatry and the DSM.- What does Phenomenology Contribute to the Debate about DSM-5.- The Conceptual Status of DSM-5 Diagnoses.- Conclusion.