Personality Disorders
1st Edition
Published on 13. May 2005
536 pages
978-0-470-09037-4 (ISBN)
Description
This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence andExperience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidenceand clinical experience concerning personality disorders.
A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personalitydisorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained,maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle and socialadjustment that are different in quality from psychotic andneurotic symptoms. The book reviews recent progress andcurrent controversies in this area, providing a guide to cliniciansand a contribution to the ongoing revision of the two maindiagnostic systems, the DSM-IV and ICD-10.
Written by Mario Maj, an internationally renowned psychiatristand secretary for publications of the World PsychiatricAssociation, this work includes coverage of neuroscientific andpsychiatric aspects and is an unbiased and reliable referencepoint.
Reviews / Votes
"This well-ordered text by a world-wide collection of expertsprovides an authoritative exploration of these common andmisunderstood conditions." (Electric Review,November/December 2005) "...clearly well researched and reasonably organized..."(Doody's Health Services)More details
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Mario Maj, University of Naples, Italy
Hagop S. Asiskal, University of California, San Diego,USA
Juan E. Mezzich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NewYork, USA
Ahmed Okasha, Ain Shams University, Cario, Egypt
Content
List of Review Contributors.
Preface
Chapter 1. Schizotypal, Schizoid and Paranoid Disorders
Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review (Josef Parnas, DeborahLicht and Pierre Bovet).
Chapter 2. Antisocial Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review (C. RobertCloninger).
Chapter 3. Histrionic and Borderline Disorder
Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review(Michael H. Stone).
Chapter 4. Narcissistic Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review (ElsaRonningstam).
Chapter 5. The Anxious Cluster
The Anxious Cluster of Personality Disorders: A Review (PeterTyrer).
Chapter 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): A Review(Paul T. Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin and HillaryNorton).
Epilogue: The Renaissance of the Ancient Concept of Temperament(with a Focus on Affective Temperaments) (Hagop S. Akiskal andKareen Akiskal).
Index.
