Adaptive Solutions to Personality Disorders

This book explores nidotherapy: the systematic process of changing the physical, social, and personal environment for clients who have failed to respond fully to conventional treatments.

Peter Tyrer argues that clients with personality disorders can improve enormously when placed in the right environment and introduces the process of nidotherapy. The chapters explore methods of matching the patient to the environment, modification of the environment, and patient adaptation, along with case examples and a glossary of key terms. Additionally, the use of ICD-11 classification to understand all aspects of a person’s personality is explored to assess personality difficulty, social prescribing, and treatments for severe personality disorder.

This book is essential for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and mental health professionals who treat personality disorders, as well as graduate students in clinical psychology courses.

Peter Tyrer is Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry in the Division of Psychiatry in the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College, London. His extensive body of work includes over 600 original articles and books, primarily focused on subjects such as anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and their respective treatments. In 1990, he developed nidotherapy, an approach involving collaborative and systematic assessment and manipulation of the environment to assist individuals with chronic mental illnesses.