Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572306297 ISBN 13: 9781572306295

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2001

Synopsis

This authoritative work comprehensively reviews what is known about personality disorders, including vital information to guide clinical decision making. Leading experts synthesize contemporary thinking about the classification, etiologies, and development of these complex disorders. Diagnostic issues are explored, and available assessment instruments are discussed. The Handbook provides in-depth coverage of all commonly used psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments, with particular attention to the empirical evidence for each approach. Also addressed are special treatment modalities, such as day programs and group therapy, and forensic issues.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Livesley, a major contributor to the burgeoning research in personality disorder assessment and classification, is to be congratulated on editing this comprehensive volume. Leading personality disorder investigators and theoreticians have contributed to making this book essential for any serious student of the field--whether at the undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate level--who wants the latest available information." Robert L. Spitzer, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (former Chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Work Group to Develop DSM-III and DSM-III-R)

"Most books about personality disorders are like side dishes at a banquet. They deal with one aspect of the subject: assessment and measurement, forensic implications, psychological and psychodynamic aspects, or medico-legal complications. Even those books that have attempted a broader view have tended to concentrate on one or more of these elements at the expense of others. Handbook of Personality Disorders is different--it is a genuine main course, striking a balance between theory and practice, speculation and fact, biology and psychology, and cause and effect. Livesley has chosen his collaborators well and together they cover all that the world yet knows about a subject that is still in its infancy but growing fast." Peter Tyrer, MD, Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

About the Author

W. John Livesley, MD, PhD, is Professor and former Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is also Editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders. Dr. Livesley has contributed extensively to the literature on personality disorder, with publications including the edited volume The DSM-IV Personality Disorders. His research focuses on the classification, assessment, and origins of personality disorder, and his clinical interests center on an integrated approach to treatment based on current empirical knowledge.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1572306297
• ISBN 13: 9781572306295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 626
• Editor: Livesley W. John