Personality Disorders, Volume 8

This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning personality disorders.

A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personality disorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms. The book reviews recent progress and current controversies in this area, providing a guide to clinicians and a contribution to the ongoing revision of the two main diagnostic systems, the DSM-IV and ICD-10.

Written by Mario Maj, an internationally renowned psychiatrist and secretary for publications of the World Psychiatric Association, this work includes coverage of neuroscientific and psychiatric aspects and is an unbiased and reliable reference point.

Content:
Chapter 1 Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review (pages 1–124): Josef Parnas, Deborah Licht and Pierre Bovet
Chapter 2 Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review (pages 125–200): C. Robert Cloninger
Chapter 3 Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review (pages 201–276): Michael H. Stone
Chapter 4 Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review (pages 277–348): Elsa Ronningstam
Chapter 5 The Anxious Cluster of Personality Disorders: A Review (pages 349–403): Peter Tyrer
Chapter 6 Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder: A Review (pages 405–477): Paul Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin and Hillary Norton