When it comes to personality disorders, Joel Paris stresses the fact that they are now seen as psychiatric illness, however there could still be some narrowing down on what exactly personality disorder is, and what categories the branches of the disorder fall into. In the section I paraphrased above, “There is no theoretical basis on which to decide whether to have three personality disorders, or 300” (Paris, 9). Paris continues with now there are ten categories in the DSM system, but brings up the idea if they reasonable or reliable (Paris, 14). Even with this question on the reliableness of the DSM categories he goes in depth of the categories throughout the book. When he looks at these categories and the possible diagnosis and reason
