Part 1: Historical/Ideological Perspectives
1. The History of DSM
Edward Shorter
2. Considering the Economy of DSM Alternatives
John Z. Sadler
3. The Ideology behind DSM-5
Joel Paris
Part 2: Ideological and Conceptual Perspectives
4. The Biopolitics of Defining "Mental Disorder"
Warren A. Kinghorn
5. Establishing Normative Validity for Scientific Psychiatric Nosology: The Significance of Integrating Patient Perspectives
Douglas Porter
6. The Paradox of Professional Success: Grand Ambition, Furious Resistance, and the Derailment of the DSM-5 Revision
Owen Whooley and Allan V. Horwitz
Part 3: Conceptual Perspectives
7. DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser
Allen Frances
8. Overdiagnosis, Underdiagnosis, Synthesis: A Dialectic for Psychiatry and the DSM
Joseph M. Pierre
9. What does Phenomenology Contribute to the Debate about DSM-5
Aaron Mishara and Michael A. Schwartz
10. The Conceptual Status of DSM-5 Diagnoses
James Phillips
11. Conclusion
James Phillips
About the Author: 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.
