First (born 1956) is an American psychiatrist who focuses on diagnostic criteria for mental disorders.
[1] He also served as consultant to the World Health Organization for the revision of ICD-11.
First earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978.
He has written on several of these controversies, including depression,[2] eating disorders,[3] and desire for amputation or paralysis, calling it body integrity identity disorder.
[4] He has provided expert opinion and testimony on several high-profile cases, including the federal trial of the accused Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.