Personality disorders [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mario Maj ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8581; 616.8582
• Soggetto topico: Personality disorders
• Altri autori: MajMario <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: VOLUME 8 Personality Disorders; Contents; List of Review Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1 SCHIZOTYPAL, SCHIZOID AND PARANOID DISORDERS; Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 1.1 Paul E. Meehl's Model of Schizotypy and Schizophrenia; 1.2 Whatever Happened to Healthy Schizotypy?; 1.3 Genetic Enhancements to Schizotypy Theorizing; 1.4 Cluster A Personality Disorders: Unanswered Questions about Epidemiological, Evolutionary and Genetic Aspects; 1.5 Schizotypy and Schizophrenia; 1.6 Parsing the Schizophrenia Spectrum; 1.7 The Future of Cluster A Personality Disorders ; 1.8 Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Phenotype Specification for Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia1.9 A Developmental, Behavioural Genetic Look at Schizotypal Disorder; 1.10 The Premorbid Personality Background of Psychotic Disorders; 1.11 Changing Boundaries at Different Levels of Validity; 1.12 Finding the Right Level of Analysis; 1.13 Search for a Systematic Approach to the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders; 1.14 Schizotypal Personality Disorder-a Minor Variant of Schizophrenia?; 1.15 Diagnosis Versus Classification in Psychiatry ; 1.16 Cluster A Personality Disorders: Conundrums and New Directions1.17 Have Paranoid and Schizoid Personality Disorders Become Dispensable Diagnoses?; CHAPTER 2 ANTISOCIAL DISORDER; Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 2.1 Understanding the Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy Professional Literature; 2.2 Developmental Perspectives on Self-Awareness in Antisocial Personality Disorder; 2.3 The Complexity of Antisocial Behaviour; 2.4 Assessing Research on Antisocial Personality; 2.5 Antisocial or Social Adaptation ; 2.6 Antisocial Personality Disorder-The Forgotten Patients of Psychiatry2.7 A New Conceptualization of Antisocial Personality Disorder; 2.8 Cloninger's Theory of Antisocial Personality Disorder; 2.9 An Uphill Battle Being Won; 2.10 Public Health Approaches to Antisocial Personality Disorder; 2.11 Antisocial Personality Disorder in its Cultural Context; CHAPTER 3 BORDERLINE AND HISTRIONIC DISORDERS; Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review; COMMENTARIES; 3.1 From Shifting Diagnoses to Empirically-based Diagnostic Constructs ; 3.2 What is a Personality Disorder, a Set of Traits or Symptoms?3.3 Mentalization and Borderline Personality Disorder; 3.4 Complex and Diverse, Yet Similar?; 3.5 The Need for New Paradigms in the Research Approaches to Borderline Personality Disorder; 3.6 Borderline Personality Disorder: From Clinical Heterogeneity to Diagnostic Coherence; 3.7 Borderline Personality Disorder: Problems of Definition and Complex Aetiology; 3.8 Some Problems in the Current Conceptualization of Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders ; 3.9 Borderline (and Histrionic) Personality Disorders: Boundaries, Epidemiology, Genetics and Treatment
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 revisio
• Titolo autorizzato: Personality disorders
• ISBN: 1-280-27568-5; 9786610275687; 0-470-09038-3; 0-470-09037-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830665203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: WPA series, evidence and experience in psychiatry ; ; v. 8.