The second edition of the Field Guide to Personality Disorders has been completely re-conceptualized as a companion volume for Disordered Personalities and has no overlap in material. This book has a wealth of clinical information that gives readers and educators a fuller understanding of the personality disorder topics. Contents include: Diagnostic Principles, Cultural Considerations, Therapeutic Principles, Ego Psychology and Ego Defenses, Biological Dimensions of Personality, Personality Changes in Later Life, Psychological Testing and Diagnostic Interviews. An excerpt of this book is available online in PDF format. If you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed you may download this excerpt to review by following this link ( Field_Guide.pdf - 80 kb) About the Author Dave Robinson is a psychiatrist practicing in London, Ontario, Canada. His particular interests are consultation-liaison psychiatry and both undergraduate and postgraduate education. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto, and then completed a residency in family practice before entering psychiatry. He is a (lowly) lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. About the Artist Brian Chapman was born in Sussex, England and moved to Canada in 1957. He was formerly a Creative Director at Mediacom. He continues to freelance and is versatile in a wide range of media. He devoted almost twenty years of his time and talents to create over one thousand illustrations for Rapid Psychler Press. Brian passed away in 2012 after a brief respiratory ailment. His extreme generosity and legendary sense of humour live on in the pages of this book. |