Personality and Psychopathology
Published on 30. June 1999
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-88048-923-2 (ISBN)
Description
Personality and Psychopathology compiles the conclusions of more than 30 internationally recognized experts who each carefully examine the link between personality traits and psychopathology. Recent findings have clarified the importance of personality in the development and expression of psychopathology.
In light of such discoveries, this reference examines the relationship of personality traits with psychopathology from several interlocking perspectives - descriptive, developmental, etiological, and therapeutic. It successfully tackles ; A description of the frequency and patterns of overlap between personality and psychopathology; The structure and stability of normal personality traits across the life span and their relation to psychopathology; An analysis of personality disorders from three different approaches; The causes of individual differences in personality and psychopathology from genetic, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives; The role of personality in the treatment of psychopathology
Complete with illustrative charts, this all-inclusive resource provides invaluable information on the link between personality and psychopathology.
In light of such discoveries, this reference examines the relationship of personality traits with psychopathology from several interlocking perspectives - descriptive, developmental, etiological, and therapeutic. It successfully tackles ; A description of the frequency and patterns of overlap between personality and psychopathology; The structure and stability of normal personality traits across the life span and their relation to psychopathology; An analysis of personality disorders from three different approaches; The causes of individual differences in personality and psychopathology from genetic, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives; The role of personality in the treatment of psychopathology
Complete with illustrative charts, this all-inclusive resource provides invaluable information on the link between personality and psychopathology.
Reviews / Votes
The book's comprehensiveness is impressive; it is currentin its thinking and important in a somewhat unknown area. . . . The book is
quite integrative, especially given the various research interests of the
authors. . . . Considering the interplay between Axis I and Axis II
conditions and the important consequences of such comorbidities, this book
should have great appeal to psychiatrists and other mental health care
practitioners. It is an excellent reference book that I believe will stay
current throughout the next several years at least. * Psychiatric Times *
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
VA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1034 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88048-923-2 (9780880489232)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
C. Robert Cloninger, M.D., is Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
Content
Part I: Role of Personality in Psychopathology. Personality and vulnerability to affective disorders. Measurement of psychopathology as variants of personality. Personality correlates of eating disorder subtypes. Axis I and Axis II: comorbidity or confusion? Part II: What Is Normal Personality Structure and Development? Personality development in childhood: old and new findings. Continuity and change over the adult life cycle: personality and personality disorders. Evaluating the structure of personality. Part III: What Is a Personality Disorder? Categorical approaches to assessment and diagnosis of personality disorders. Dimensional approaches to personality disorder assessment and diagnosis. Emotional traits and personality dimensions. Part IV: What Causes Good and Bad Personality Development? Comparing the biological and cultural inheritance of stature and conservatism in the kinships of monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Psychosocial factors in the development of personality disorders. Genetic and environmental structure of personality. Emerging neuroscience approaches to understanding cognition and psychopathology: positron emission tomography imaging. Part V: Treatment and Outcome of Personality Disorders. Cognitive aspects of personality disorders and their relation to syndromal disorders: a psychoevolutionary approach. Pharmacotherapy of impulsive-aggressive behavior. Temperament and the pharmacotherapy of depression. Treatment of borderline personality disorder with rational emotive behavior therapy. Index.