Professor Tyrer is an Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College London. He has been heavily involved in the working groups researching the reclassifications required for the ICD-11, including chairing the working group on the reclassification of personality disorder, which has been completely revised for this iteration.
'This book is a brief read and provides important information regarding classification changes, new diagnoses, their improvements and drawbacks, and their potential to lead to greater clinical utility across the globe.' Andre Lars Lorenz, Doody's Reviews