Personality Disorders
Recognition and Clinical Management

A detailed and comprehensive account of the features of personality disorders with emphasis on strategies for clinical management.

Jonathan H. Dowson (Author), Adrian T. Grounds (Author)

9780521450492, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 November 1995

416 pages, 10 tables
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.76 kg

'This book is a tremendous outing for that enfant terrible of psychiatry, personality disorder.' Bill Fulford, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Personality disorders consist of long-term patterns of maladaptive behaviour which have a generally unrecognised importance in clinical practice. However, personality disorders are the origins of many medical consultations and social ills, including substance abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide, neglect of children, criminality and HIV transmission. In a comprehensive summary and evaluation of the clinical literature, this book seeks to dispel the myth that personality disorder is simply a category for those problem individuals for whom nothing can be done. With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, Drs Dowson and Grounds provide a co-ordinated empirically-based account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists and allied disciplines, including clinical psychologists, social workers, criminologists, specialist nurses and primary care physicians.

Part I. Recognition: 1. Personality disorders: basic concepts and clinical overview
2. Specified personality disorders: clinical features
3. Personality disorders: less specific clinical presentations and epidemiology
4. Longitudinal aspects of personality disorders
5. Assessment of personality disorders
Part II. Clinical Management: 6. Drugs and other physical treatments
7. Psychological management
8. Group psychotherapies
9. Management of offenders with personality disorders
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]