Description
Book SynopsisThis volume ably addresses personality disorders as one of the top priorities of psychiatry for the new millennium, offering a thorough and updated review and analysis of empirical work to point up the issues central to developing a therapeutic model for treatment as well as current research challenges.
Trade ReviewThis is a succinct, focused volume in which only a few topics are covered, but which are covered quite well. Given the continuous advances in our understanding of the human mind as well as the myriad ways in which it can become disordered, this volume is not merely justified, but overdue.
* Doody's Health Science Journal *
This book successfully provides a solid, coherent update and selective review of priority topics. It is excellent reading for general psychiatrists, pre-exam psychiatric trainees, case managers and other mental health clinicians . . .In an area of controversy and limited research, the editors and authors have been remarkably successful in producing a clinically relevant and helpful book that is both authoritative and easy to read.
* Blackwell Science Asia *
All in all, this is a highly readable volume that elucidates a number of important topics related to psychotherapy with personality disordered patients.
-- Lynn E. Alden * Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books *
Table of ContentsContributors
Introduction to the Review of Psychiatry Series
Foreword
Chapter 1. Empirical studies of psychotherapy for personality disorders
Chapter 2. Psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder
Chapter 3. Combining medication with psychotherapy in treatment of personality disorders
Chapter 4. Gradations of antisociality and responsivity to psychosocial therapies
Chapter 5. Cognitive therapy of personality disorders
Afterword
Index
