ICD-11 Personality Disorders: A Clinician's Guide

This insightful book offers professionals a comprehensive guide for navigating the new way of diagnosing and understanding personality difficulties and disorders introduced in the ICD-11. Through in-depth clinical examples, these experienced authors illustrate clearly how to determine severity, specify the five trait domains, and interpret aspects of personality dysfunction, including specific combinations of trait domains. The book also provides guidelines for differential diagnosis in relation to a range of other persistent mental disorders, clinical decision- making, individualized treatment planning, necessary treatment intensity, and psychotherapeutic focus. Readers will appreciate the exploration of available standardized instruments for classification, as well as the guide using the old classifications in the ICD-10 and the DSM-5 with the ICD-11 guidelines in the appendix. This book provides a roadmap for psychologists, psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, and students to use the latest advancements in classification to enhance patient care of people with personality disorders.

Bo Bach, PhD, DMSc, is clinical professor at Copenhagen University Hospital in Slagelse, where he works as clinician and director of the Center for Personality Disorder Research. Bach was granted the 2021 Theodore Millon Award by the American Psychological Association for his mid-career contribution to the assessment of personality disorders. He is co-author of the Diagnostic Interview for Personality Pathology in ICD-11 (DIPP-11) and the Personality Disorder Severity for ICD-11 (PDS-ICD-11) scale. He served as a consultant for WHO on the development of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders and associated field trials. He is a former board member of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) and serves on the editorial board for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment and Journal of Personality Assessment. Bach is an internationally certified trainer and supervisor in schema therapy.

Sebastian Simonsen, PhD, is scientific director and clinical practitioner at Stolpegaard Psychotherapy Centre, Mental Health Services in Copenhagen. He is also an affiliated associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. As a scientist-practitioner, Simonsen is Specialized in personality disorders with a particular focus on clinical management, treatment planning, psychotherapy, psychopathology, mentalization, social cognition, and interpersonal avoidance. He was part of the work group behind the Danish national guidelines for borderline personality disorder and has published a review paper on European guidelines. Internationally, he has contributed to the dissemination of new dimensional models of personality disorders as well as mentalization-based therapy (MBT). He is also a former board member of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) and serves on the editorial board for Journal of Clinical Psychology. Simonsen is an internationally certified trainer and supervisor in MBT.