This major reference and text provides the authoritative account of current knowledge on personality disorders, including vital information to guide clinical decision making. Bringing together preeminent authorities in the field, the Handbook synthesizes contemporary thinking about the classification, etiologies, and development of these complex disorders. Diagnostic issues are considered in depth, and available assessment instruments are reviewed and evaluated. The work provides in-depth coverage of all commonly used psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments, with particular attention to the empirical evidence for each approach. Special topics addressed include different treatment modalities, such as day programs and group therapy, and forensic issues. Table of Contents
I. Theoretical and Nosological Issues
1. Conceptual and Taxonomic Issues, Livesley
2. Theoretical Perspectives, Millon, Meagher, and Grossman
3. Official Classification Systems, Widiger
4. Co-occurrence with Syndrome Disorders, Dolan-Sewell, Krueger, and Shea
II. Etiology and Development
5. Epidemiology, Mattia and Zimmerman
6. Biological and Treatment Correlates, Coccaro
7. A Neurobehavioral Dimensional Model, Depue and Lenzenweger
8. Genetics, Jang and Vernon
9. Attachment, Bartholomew, Kwong, and Hart
10. Psychosocial Adversity, Paris
11. Can Personality Change?, Tickle, Heatherton, and Wittenberg
12. Natural History and Long-Term Outcome, Stone
III. Diagnosis and Assessment
13. Assessment Instruments, Clark and Harrison
14. Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice, MacKenzie
IV. Treatment
15. Psychosocial Treatment Outcome, Piper and Joyce
16. Supportive Psychotherapy, Winston, Rosenthal, and Muran
17. Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Gabbard
18. Cognitive Therapy, Cottraux and Blackburn
19. Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Ryle
20. Using Interpersonal Theory to Select Effective Treatment Interventions, Benjamin and Pugh
21. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Robins, Ivanoff, and Linehan
22. Psychoeducational Approaches, Ruiz-Sancho, Smith, and Gunderson
23. Pharmacotherapy, Markovitz
V. Treatment Modalities and Special Issues
24. Group Psychotherapy, MacKenzie
25. Partial Hospitalization Programs, Azim
26. Treatment of Personality Disorders in Association with Symptom Disorders, Pilkonis
27. Forensic Issues, Hart
28. A Framework for an Integrated Approach to Treatment, Livesley from the publisher's website |
