Personality Disorders (Primer On)

Personality Disordersis an up-to-date, evidence-based, and accessibly written review to assist psychiatry, psychology, social work, and mental health trainees and seasoned practitioners in their understanding and treatment of patients with various personality styles and personality disorders. The work is divided into three sections, which include clinical illustrations and wisdom from well-known expert clinicians. Section I provides an overview of the assessment of personality styles and disorders and a general clinical approach, including epidemiology, interviewing, and developing a categorical and trait diagnosis. Section II describes the major evidence-based multi-clinical treatment approaches for personality disorders, such as general management, cognitive and behavioral therapies, dialectical behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapies, schema focused psychotherapy, mentalization-based treatment, and family and group therapy. Section III covers the major specific personality disorders, their treatments, and management of relevant co-morbidities.
Each chapter offers key point summaries, provides useful resources for patients, and scholarly references for psychiatry trainees and clinicians. Chapters are written from a bio-psycho-social-cultural perspective using either a single theoretical approach or a multi-modal treatment approach. This book is the most comprehensive guide to personality disorders to date, detailing a wide array of multi-theoretical and inclusive clinical treatment approaches.

• Provides an accessibly written, comprehensive overview of personality disorders
• Describes the leading theories about the origins of the personality disorders
• Reviews diverse evidence-based theories and descriptions of treatment, compares similarities and differences between treatment options, and describes how each can be used by clinicians and researchers
• Offers clinical illustrations and examples to guide psychiatry, psychology, social work, mental health trainees, and seasoned practitioners in their care of patients with personality disorders

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors

I. OVERVIEW
1. The Personality Syndromes
Jonathan Shedler
2. Levels of Personality Organization: Theoretical Background and Clinical Applications
Eve Caligor, John F. Clarkin, and Julia F. Sowislo
3. Pathways Between Psychological Trauma and the Development of Personality Disorders
Valerie Rosen, Gregory Fonzo, Emily Rosen, and Alex Preston
4. Integrating Clinical and Empirical Approaches to Personality:
The Shedler- Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)
Jonathan Shedler

II. MULTI-THEORETICAL TREATMENTS OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS
5. Crossing the Alphabet Divide: Navigating the Evidence for DBT, GPM, MBT, ST, and TFP for BPD
Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, and Haruka Notsu
6. The Big 6: Evidence- based Therapies for the Treatment of Personality Disorders
Robert E. Feinstein
7. Managing Patients with Personality Disorders in Medical Settings
Robert E. Feinstein
8. Transference- focused Psychotherapy
Christopher Green and Frank Yeomans
9. Mentalization- based Treatment
Robert P. Drozek and Jonathan T. Henry
10. Cognitive- behavioral Therapy
Matthew W. Southward, Stephen A. Semcho, and Shannon Sauer- Zavala
11. Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Sheila E. Crowell, Parisa R. Kaliush, Robert D. Vlisides- Henry, and Nicolette Molina
12. Schema Therapy
Anja Schaich, Eva Fassbinder, and Arnoud Arntz
13. Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) for Borderline Personality Disorder
Richard G. Hersh, Benjamin McCommon, Emma Golkin, and Jennifer Sotsky
14. Employing Psychodynamic Process- oriented Group Psychotherapy with Personality Disorders
Kenneth M. Pollock and Robert E. Feinstein
15. Psychopharmacology of Personality Disorders
Tawny L. Smith and Samantha M. Catanzano
III. PERSONALITY DISORDERS

16. Paranoid Personalities (Vigilant Style)
Royce Lee and Edwin Santos
17. Some Thoughts about Schizoid Dynamics
Nancy McWilliams
18. Antisocial Personalities
Glen O. Gabbard
19. Borderline Personality Disorder
Curtis C. Bogetti and Eric A. Fertuck
20. Histrionic Personality Disorder
Michelle Magid and Isadora Fox
21. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Alyson A. Gorun, Benjamin A. Scherban, and Elizabeth L. Auchincloss
22. Avoidant Personality Disorder
Len Sperry and Gerardo Casteleiro
23. Dependent Personalities
Robert F. Bornstein and Adam P. Natoli
24. Obsessive- compulsive Personality Disorder
Cynthia Playfair
25. Masochistic/ Self- defeating Personality Styles
Robert Alan Glick and Brenda Berger

Index

Robert Feinstein, Professor of Psychiatry, Northwell/Hofstra Medical School

Dr. Robert E. Feinstein is currently a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in a private practice and organizational consulting in Stamford, Connecticut. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker Medical School at Northwell/Hofstra. He teaches and supervises at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Long Island, New York and from his private practice. Dr. Feinstein studied at the New York University School of Medicine, was a psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. He trained as a psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Feinstein was formerly Professor of Psychiatry at University of Colorado School of Medicine and Dell Medical School. In addition, Dr. Feinstein served as Senior Associate Dean of Education at the Colorado School of Medicine, is a University of Colorado Denver President's Teacher's Scholar, and former Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at New York Medical College.

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