Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)

700 pages of diagnostic criteria a NECESSITY for psychology, social work, and medical graduate students.

I have learn about this book from my study in Master in Counseling. This book is a great help in Diagnostic of clients that I have. It is very important that this book is properly use and the person using the book should have some training and knowledge about the book before using it.

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Daniel Ng

I really like this book. Very organised, which makes mental cataloguing of info very easy.

There are too many reviews here stating how indispensable or vital the book is without saying why. Mental disorders do not conform to lists of symptoms with "5 out of the following 8 criteria." They are far more fluid. There is no discussion of etiology. It is just a check-list of symptoms that is overused by unknowledgeable practitioners who can't do a good diagnosis through observation,history and examination, the courts and jails and especially the insurance companies. A lot of reasonable diagnostic possibilities are omitted due to lobbying by political groups too.

Wait just a chicken flickin' minute! What is Amazon trying to say about me that this shows up in my Gold Box with the claim that it's been selected "just for me?" It doesn't take a detective to figure out what they're seeming to imply, here.

Sure, there's probably a good doctoral thesis for someone in many of my issues, but I don't need a big doorstop of a book to self-diagnose actual disorders. Well, more of them, anyway.