Personality Disorders

Toward Theoretical and Empirical Integration in Diagnosis and Assessment
Herausgeber: Huprich, Steven K

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are personality disorders? How should they be conceptualized, and how should they be assessed and diagnosed in clinical practice? For over a century these questions have been at the heart of psychological science. Yet even today, as the recent controversy over proposed changes to the classification of personality disorders in DSM-5 attests, there is hardly consensus on the answers. This groundbreaking text offers a comprehensive and provocative tour of a field that is ripe for integration. Contributors who rank among the world's most prestigious clinical and personality psychologists guide readers through the state of our knowledge of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians. They address the advantages and disadvantages of categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing personality pathology used in the standard diagnostic manuals, as well as the "hybrid" model described in Section III of DSM-5. Recent advances in statistical, methodological, and biogenetic research strategies are applied to the study of personality disorders, with a focus on clinical and empirical approaches to assessment and diagnosis. Theorists describe how psychodynamic, attachment, interpersonal, evolutionary, and cognitive processing approaches offer surprisingly similar models of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 957g
• ISBN-13: 9781433818455
• ISBN-10: 1433818450
• Artikelnr.: 42236045

Autorenporträt

Edited by Steven K. Huprich

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Introduction: Personality Disorders Into the 21st Century
Steven K. Huprich
I. Current Issues in the Diagnosis and Assessment of Personality Disorders
1. The Value of Retaining Personality Disorder Diagnoses
Kenneth R. Silk
2. A Critical Evaluation of Retaining Personality Categories and Types
Douglas B. Samuel and Sarah A. Griffin
3. The Role of Traits in Describing, Assessing, and Understanding
Personality Pathology
Kristian E. Markon and Katherine G. Jonas
4. A Critical Evaluation of Moving Toward a Trait System for Personality
Disorder Assessment
Kevin B. Meehan and John F. Clarkin
II. Research and Assessment Strategies
1. At the Nexus of Science and Practice: Answering Basic Clinical
Questions in Personality Disorder Assessment and Diagnosis With
Quantitative Modeling Techniques
Aidan G. C. Wright and Johannes Zimmermann
2. Lessons Learned From Longitudinal Studies of Personality Disorders
Alex S. Keuroghlian and Mary C. Zanarini
3. Biological Bases of Personality Disorders
Susan C. South
4. Object Relations Theories and Personality Disorders: Internal
Representations and Defense Mechanisms
Caleb Siefert and Jonathan H. Porcerelli
5. Integrating Clinical and Empirical Perspectives on Personality: The
Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)
Jonathan Shedler
6. Assessing Explicit and Implicit Processes in Personality Pathology
Irving B. Weiner
7. Process-Focused Assessment of Personality Pathology
Robert F. Bornstein
III. Moving Toward Integrated and Unified Models of Personality Disorders
and Pathology
1. An Integrative, Psychodynamic Framework of Personality Pathology
Patrick Luyten and Sidney J. Blatt
2. An Integrative Attachment Theory Framework of Personality Disorders
Kenneth N. Levy, J. Wesley Scala, Christina M. Temes, and Tracy L.
Clouthier
3. An Integrative Interpersonal Framework for Understanding Personality
Pathology
Nicole M. Cain and Emily B. Ansell
4. An Integrating and Comprehensive Model of Personality Pathology Based
on Evolutionary Theory
Theodore Millon and Stephen Strack
5. The Cognitive–Affective Processing System Model of Personality
Pathology: Ready-Made for Theoretical Integration
Steven K. Huprich and Sharon M. Nelson
6. The Link Between Personality Theory and Psychological Treatment: A
Shifting Terrain
John F. Clarkin, Nicole M. Cain, and W. John Livesley
Index
About the Editor