![]() | Allen FrancesAllen Frances, MD, is a clinician, educator, researcher, and leading authority on psychiatric diagnosis. He chaired the DSM-IV Task Force, was a member of the Task Force that prepared DSM-III-R, and wrote the final version of the Personality Disorders section in DSM-III. The author of several hundred papers and more than a dozen books, Dr. Frances is Professor and Chair Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. |



