Personality Disorders

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Series preface......Page 12
Clinical picture......Page 14
Functional impairment and distress......Page 16
DSM-IV
classification......Page 17
Phenomenology of the personality
disorders......Page 18
Adolescent personality disorders......Page 33
Summary......Page 34
Validity of the concept of personality
disorder......Page 36
Dimensional representations of personality disorders: Not
whether, but when and which?......Page 45
The Five-Factor Model and the personality disorders......Page 47
Starting over: The Shedler and Westen Assessment
Procedure......Page 49
Personality disorder assessment instruments......Page 52
Issues pertinent to the clinical assessment of personality
disorders......Page 56
Summary......Page 58
Prevalence of personality disorders......Page 60
Course......Page 64
Impairment......Page 67
Cross-cultural aspects......Page 69
Effects of gender......Page 71
Co-occurrence with other disorders......Page 73
Effects of personality disorders on treatment of Axis-I
disorders......Page 80
Summary......Page 84
4.
Biological and psychological theories......Page 86
Genetic contribution......Page 87
Cloninger's biosocial theory of personality......Page 93
Neurobiology......Page 96
Child abuse and maltreatment......Page 99
Attachment......Page 102
Summary......Page 109
Is Cluster C a clinical entity?......Page 112
Cognitive conceptualizations......Page 113
Dependent personality disorder......Page 115
Avoidant personality disorder......Page 117
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder......Page 120
Evidence-based treatment......Page 121
Summary......Page 125
General description of borderline
personality disorder......Page 128
Construct validity of borderline personality disorder......Page 133
Diathesis-stress models......Page 135
Experimental tests of
"splitting'' and other information processing biases......Page 137
Evidence-based treatments......Page 140
Treatment outcome......Page 151
Pharmacotherapy......Page 159
Summary......Page 161
Narcissistic personality disorder......Page 162
Histrionic personality disorder......Page 168
Cluster B and interpersonal violence......Page 171
Summary......Page 174
Aggressive behaviour......Page 176
Antisocial personality disorder versus psychopathy......Page 179
Precursors of antisocial personality disorder......Page 187
Treatment for antisocial personality disorder......Page 191
Summary......Page 195
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders......Page 198
Schizotypal personality disorder......Page 199
Schizoid personality disorder......Page 204
Paranoid personality disorder......Page 206
Treatment......Page 210
Summary......Page 212
Recommended reading......Page 214
References......Page 216
Author index......Page 258
Subject index......Page 270