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Joel Paris is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of psychology, arts and humanities, and medicine. Their research contributions span 70 publications in psychology, 21 in arts and humanities, and 11 in medicine. The main subfields of study include clinical psychology with 68 publications, philosophy with 20, psychiatry and mental health with 7, cognitive neuroscience with 2, and social psychology with 1.

Their research focuses on several topics, including personality disorders and psychopathology with 58 publications, mental health and psychiatry (38), psychotherapy techniques and applications (34), personality traits and psychology (22), suicide and self-harm studies (8), child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development (4), and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments (4).

Joel Paris has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Can we predict or prevent suicide?: An update, 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and a Biopsychosocial Model of Borderline Personality Disorder, 2023, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Access to psychotherapy for patients with personality disorders, 2020, Personality and Mental Health

They have also collaborated with various coauthors with notable frequent collaborators being Carl W. Lejuez, Chi Chuen Chan, Kerry L. Jang, Brianna J. Turner, and Robert Biskin.

Their work has appeared in a range of publication venues, including the Journal of Personality Disorders (2 publications), Cambridge University Press eBooks (2), Preventive Medicine, Current Neuropharmacology, and The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Joel Paris has published several books, mainly with Cambridge University Press, totaling three works:

  • Social Factors in the Personality Disorders, 2020
  • Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry, 2023
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders, 2020

Another forthcoming book with the American Psychological Association is titled A concise guide to borderline personality disorder, expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Personality traits as correlates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide completions: a systematic review.

    Jelena Brezo;J. Paris;Gustavo Turecki

  • A 27-year follow-up of patients with borderline personality disorder

    Joel Paris;Hallie Zweig-Frank

  • Somatoform disorders: personality and the social matrix of somatic distress.

    Laurence J. Kirmayer;James M. Robbins;Joel Paris

  • Stability and variability of affective experience and interpersonal behavior in borderline personality disorder.

    Jennifer J. Russell;D. S. Moskowitz;David C. Zuroff;Debbie Sookman

  • Brain Regional α-[11C]Methyl-l-Tryptophan Trapping in Impulsive Subjects With Borderline Personality Disorder

    Marco Leyton;Hidehiko Okazawa;Mirko Diksic;Joel Paris

  • A Prospective Investigation of Borderline Personality Disorder in Abused and Neglected Children Followed Up into Adulthood

    Cathy Spatz Widom;Sally J Czaja;Joel Paris

  • The interface between borderline personality disorder and bipolar spectrum disorders.

    Joel Paris;John Gunderson;Igor Weinberg

  • Chronic suicidality among patients with borderline personality disorder.

    Joel Paris

  • Issues for DSM-5: whither melancholia? The case for its classification as a distinct mood disorder.

    Gordon Parker;Max Fink;Edward Shorter;Michael Alan Taylor

  • Predicting suicide attempts in young adults with histories of childhood abuse

    Jelena Brezo;Joel Paris;Frank Vitaro;Martine Hébert

  • Psychological risk factors for borderline personality disorder in female patients.

    Joel Paris;Hallie Zweig-Frank;Hallie Zweig-Frank;Jaswant Guzder;Jaswant Guzder

  • Risk Factors for Suicide Completion in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case-Control Study of Cluster B Comorbidity and Impulsive Aggression

    Alexander McGirr;Joel Paris;Alain Lesage;Johanne Renaud

  • Personality Disorders Over Time: Precursors, Course, and Outcome

    Joel Paris

  • Parents' emotional neglect and overprotection according to the recollections of patients with borderline personality disorder.

    Hallie Zweig-Frank;Joel Paris

  • CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES Treatment of Schizophrenia

    Joel Paris;Roger Bland;David Goldbloom;Paul Grof

  • Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment

    Joel Paris;Peter Tyrer

  • Is hospitalization useful for suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder

    Joel Paris

  • Risk factors for borderline personality in male outpatients.

    Joel Paris;Hallie Zweig-Frank;Jaswant Guzder

  • Suicidality in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Joel Paris

  • Psychopathology in Offspring of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Study:

    Margaret Weiss;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Ronald B Feldman;Judy Vogel

  • Psychological risk factors for dissociation and self-mutilation in female patients with borderline personality disorder.

    Hallie Zweig-Frank;Joel Paris;Jaswant Guzder

  • Major theories of personality disorder

    Joel Paris

Frequent Co-Authors

Phyllis Zelkowitz
Phyllis Zelkowitz McGill University
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Martine Hébert
Martine Hébert University of Quebec at Montreal
Howard Steiger
Howard Steiger Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Jerome C. Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield New York University
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker University of New South Wales
Thomas S. Szasz
Thomas S. Szasz SUNY Upstate Medical University
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Debbie S. Moskowitz
Debbie S. Moskowitz McGill University

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