DSM-5 Insanely Simplified: Unlocking the Spectrums within DSM-5 and ICD-10

This is a wonderful little book that helps explain the textbook. I love when someone comes up with different ways to effectively explain complex and in depth concepts in formal documentation. Learning becomes more interactive and seeing it from that point of view causes retention better.

Book was recommended to me by a co-worker. Helped me understand the diagnoses given by my providers. Recommend this book for greater insight on how the disorders break down , in easy too understand words.

Though it doesn't cover everything it is a great book to carry in my bag for my LCSW supervision. The images are cute and the information is to the point which is great!

Easy explanation of a book that is supposed to be simple in the first place. I skipped to page 15 and learned 3 things immediately. I'm studying for the NCMHCE and have been out of grad school, working in the field for a while when the switch came, not only the DSM5 but the actual exam ( I live in Florida) so double whammy. I read the entire book in a few hours and will re-read it again to highlight what I missed. I recommend this for anyone caught between the DSM IV TR and 5 in addition to learning new material,working in the field, and learning how to take a different kind of exam. This little gem of a book along with all my other study materials has already helped lessen my stress and explained in a very practical,yet clinical way how to navigate to changes and make the 5 less menacing and more friendly, like not the dark side..."I can use the force" and actually understand the concept of spectrum. Change is constant,yet it is helpful to know what those changes are and how they affect/effect our world situation. Just my thoughts, everyone has an opinion yet this book has certainly enriched my experience with the DSM 5.

This book was helpful in reviewing and better understanding parts of the DSM 5TR. It gives you some great ways to remember the differences in symptom. Of course she can’t use this as your only reference, but a good way to get the information in your head.

Fantastic title. Buser uses an economy of words and ideas to convey, in a light and witty way, complex ideas wedding Jungian/psychoanalytic core concepts with the APA jargon of the DSM-V. I found out about this book through Buser being interviewed on a favorite podcast of mine, Shrink Rap Radio, where he talks extensively about his work and this book. As he says, it is a great companion to new and old therapists transitioning to the new edition, as well as a diagnostic primer to a depth psychological mode of thinking about pathology. The archetypal personality cartoons he offers were an excellent model for me to adapt to a teenage DBT group I was leading. They enjoyed and really got these concepts as a way to introduce a personality theory to justify treatment, and introduce pathology in a neutral, non-blaming fashion to clients, especially young ones. I cannot recommend this title more highly!

It is simplified and condensed but has good tools for initial diagnosing

Es muy caro para lo que ofrece.No lo recomiendo.

ND friendly. Well written

a quite interesting way of seing DSM 5 TR, Jung’s psychological approach is certainly one of the most profond and open to scientific perspective

Awesome book, love it.Tip: this was delivered by Royal Mail, not Amazon - it was left in a different place to usual Amazon packages so check around. I spent 22 hours moaning about not receiving it. - My bad

It gave the info I was expecting, though, the book is extremely short..I was left wanting more.