Book Review: Personality Disorders: Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment

Abstract

Second edition. "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"-- Conceptual and Taxonomic Issues. Conceptual issues / W. John Livesley ; Theoretical versus inductive approaches to contemporary personality pathology / Roger D. Davis; Maria Cristina Samaco-Zamora; Theodore Millon ; Official classification systems / Thomas A. Widiger ; Dimensional approaches to personality disorder classification / Shani Ofrat; Robert F. Krueger; Lee Anna Clark ; Cultural aspects of personality disorder / Roger T. Mulder -- Psychopathology. Identity / Carsten René Jørgensen ; Attachment, mentalizing, and the self / Peter Fonagy; Patrick Luyten ; Cognitive structures and processes in personality disorders, Arnoud Arntz; Jill Lobbestael ; Taking stock of relationships among personality disorders and other forms of psychopathology / Merav Silverman & Robert F. Krueger -- Epidemiology, course, and onset. Epidemiology of personality disorders / Theresa A. Morgan; Mark Zimmerman ; Understanding stability and change in the personality disorders: methodological and substantive issues underpinning interpretive challenges and the road ahead / Mark F. Lenzenweger; Michael N. Hallquist; Aidan G. C. Wright ; Personality pathology and disorder in children and youth / Andrew M. Chanen; Jennifer L. Tackett; Katherine N. Thompson -- Etiology and Development. ‡t Genetics / Kerry L. Jang; Philip A. Vernon ; Neurotransmitter function in personality disorder / Jennifer R. Fanning; Emil F. Coccaro ; Emotional regulation and emotional processing / Paul H. Soloff ; Neuropsychological perspectives / Marianne Skovgaard Thomsen; Anthony C. Ruocco; Birgit Bork Mathiesen; Erik Simonsen ; Childhood adversities and personality disorders / Joel Paris ; Developmental psychopathology / Rebecca L. Shiner; Timothy A. Allen ; An Attachment perspective on callous and unemotional characteristics across development / Roseann M. Larstone; Stephanie G. Craig; Marlene M. Moretti -- Diagnosis and Assessment. Empirically validated diagnostic and assessment methods / Lee Anna Clark; Jaime L. Shapiro; Elizabeth Daly; Emily N. Vanderbleek; Morgan R. Negrón; Julie Harrison ; Clinical assessment / John F. Clarkin; W. John Livesley; Kevin B. Meehan ; Using interpersonal reconstructive therapy to select effective interventions for comorbid treatment-resistant, personality-disordered individuals / Lorna Smith Benjamin; Kenneth L. Critchfield; Christie Pugh Karpiak; Tracey Leone Smith; Robert Mestel -- Specific patterns. Clinical features of borderline personality disorder / Joel Paris ; Theoretical perspectives on psychopathy and antisocial Personality Disorder / Christopher J. Patrick; Sarah J. Brislin ; Clinical aspects of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy / Lacy A. Olson-Ayala; Christopher J. Patrick ; Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and component personality traits / Anthony Pinto; Emily Ansell; Michael G. Wheaton; Robert F. Krueger; Leslie Morey; Andrew E. Skodol; Lee Anna Clark -- Empirically based treatments. Cognitive analytic therapy / Anthony Ryle; Stephen Kellett ; Cognitive-behavioral therapy / Kate M. Davidson ; Dialectical behavior therapy / Clive J. Robins; Noga Zerubavel; André M. Ivanoff; Marsha M. Linehan ; Mentalization-based treatment / Anthony W. Bateman; Peter Fonagy; Chloe Campbell ; Schema therapy / David P. Bernstein; Maartje Clercx ; Transference-focused psychotherapy / John F. Clarkin; Nicole Cain; Mark F. Lenzenweger; Kenneth N. Levy ; Systems training for emotional predictability and problem solving / Nancee Blum; Donald W. Black; Don St. John ; Psychoeducation for patients with borderline personality disorder / Maria Elena Ridolfi; John G. Gunderson ; Pharmacotherapy / Paul Markovitz ; A Treatment framework for violent offenders with psychopathic traits / Stephen C. P. Wong ; Integrated modular treatment / W. John Livesley.