DSM-5-TR Made Easy: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis

Fully updated in line with the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), this authoritative guide delivers a comprehensive yet highly accessible overview of DSM diagnoses in a clear, clinically practical format. Renowned clinician James Morrison simplifies complex DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria through more than 130 carefully constructed case vignettes that reflect common real-world patient presentations.

Each disorder is presented in a concise, structured manner, supported by practical tips, explanatory tables, clinical notes, and cautionary points that help illuminate the nuances of psychiatric symptoms and functional impairment. This approach is designed to streamline and improve diagnostic accuracy in everyday clinical practice.

The DSM-5-TR edition also integrates significant updates, including the addition of prolonged grief disorder, revisions to over 70 diagnostic criteria sets, updated and revised ICD-10-CM coding, and expanded case examples covering newly included or refined subtypes.