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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838332803321

Autore

Horwitz Allan V

Titolo

Personality Disorders : A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781421446110

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Disciplina

616.8581

Soggetti

MEDICAL / Internal Medicine

Personality disorders - Social aspects

Personality disorders - Treatment - History

Personality disorders - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Issues -- Personality Disorders Emerge -- Personality Becomes Social -- Personality Flourishes -- Personality Disorders in the DSM-III -- Personality Contentions in the DSM- -- Mental Disorders or Problems in Living?

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book, the author explores how personality disorders rose to prominence in a variety of disciplines and the controversies they have generated. It will consider the variety of ways that personalities have been seen as "disorders" and tied to or separated from other kinds of mental disorders. Relatedly, it will examine how the notion of the "personality disorder" has involved negative moral and cultural evaluations that are more related to social deviance than to medical conditions"