Aspects of mental illness are still a mystery.
His research interests lie in personality disorders, and he has published 185 peer-reviewed articles, 17 books, and 44 book chapters..
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
The best antidote lies in cautious conservatism and the principles of evidence-based practice About the Author: About the author: Prof Joel Paris is Professor of Psychiatry, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada.
Until we really understand the nature of serious mental illness, psychiatrists need to resist Fads in diagnosis and treatment.
These include overdiagnosis (especially of depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD and autism), overtreatment with pharmaceuticals and the assumption that neuroscience has all the answers.
This book examines Fads and fallacies, both past and present, that plague psychiatry, both in diagnosis and in treatment.
In treatment, both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy sometimes embrace interventions with a weak base in evidence that run the risk of doing harm to patients.
In diagnosis, some faddish approaches to classification are unlikely to last.
Some of the trendiest theoretical paradigms may turn out to be unsupported by data.
Answers to the most important questions in Psychiatry may require decades of further research, so it is important to critique contemporary practice " especially as Fads in Psychiatry have occurred not only on the fringe, but in the very mainstream of theory and practice.
Aspects of mental illness are still a mystery
