Clinical Topics in Personality Disorder
Edited by
Jaydip Sarkar and Gwen Adshead
Personality disorder used to be a diagnosis of exclusion, a
condition deemed ‘untreatable’. This situation has been transformed
in the past 10 years, with a huge expansion of research and
clinical interest in personality disorders: what it is like to have
a personality disorder, what sort of services are helpful, what
treatments work best and what staff need to know.
This book provides an expert synthesis of these clinical advances.
It covers the nature of personality disorders, assessment,
diagnosis and classification, management and a broad range of
therapeutic approaches. Written by practitioners with real
expertise in the field, the book is equally suitable for
psychiatric trainees and more experienced clinicians from the full
range of disciplines in mental healthcare.
- Up to date and comprehensive.
- Includes service user experiences.
- Draws on a wealth of real clinical
experience.
- Eclectic range of therapies and
approaches.
- Covers all age groups and specialist
settings.
Five chapters have been specially commissioned
for this book, while previous versions of the other 15 chapters
have been published in the journal Advances in
Psychiatric Treatment - many have been extensively updated
by the authors.
Readership: Particularly relevant for any
healthcare professionals caring for those with personality
disorder. It will also be useful for psychiatric trainees, those
working in forensic services and anyone in the multi-disciplinary
mental health team.
About the editors:
Jaydip Sarkar – Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist,
East Midlands Centre for Forensic Mental Health, Leicester.
Gwen Adshead – Consultant Forensic
Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, Berks.
Contents
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Part 1: The nature of the
problem
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1.
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The nature of personality
disorder
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2.
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Differences between
psychopathy and other personality disorders: evidence from
neuroimaging
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3.
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Challenges in the treatment
of dangerous and severe personality disorder
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4.
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Are you looking at me?
Understanding and managing paranoid personality disorder
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5.
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Personality disorder in
older people: how common is it and what can be done?
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6.
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Management of common
personality disorders in the acute setting
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7.
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Personality disorder in
women
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8.
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Personality disorder in
adolescence
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Part 2: Management and general treatment approaches
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Assessment of personality
disorder
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10.
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Diagnosis and classification
of personality disorder: difficulties, their resolution and
implications for practice
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11.
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Murmurs of discontent:
treatment and treatability of personality disorder
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12.
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Personality disorder: its
impact on staff and the role of supervision
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Part 3: Specific treatment approaches
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13.
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Treating personality
disorder: methods and outcomes
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14.
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Skills-based therapies for
personality disorder
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15.
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Insight-oriented therapies
for personality disorder
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16.
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Treatment approaches for
severe personality disorder
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17.
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Mindfulness in the
psychotherapy of personality disorder
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18.
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Cognitive analytic therapy
for borderline personality disorder
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19.
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Contemporary therapeutic
communities: complex treatment for complex needs
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20.
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Nidotherapy: making the
environment do the therapeutic work
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