Severe Personality Disorders (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Luyn, Bert Van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It covers biological, psychoanalytic and cognitive behavioral approaches and provides a pragmatic guide to best practice. As well as discussing issues of severity, treatability and the range of appropriate management options, the content explores the common elements of effective interventions and covers early prediction, countertransference, disruptions of the therapeutic alliance, suicidal crises and what to do when dealing with dangerous, refractory and stalking patients. The chapters are authored by an international cast of distinguished investigators and innovators from the field. This is a holistic, practical guide to the treatment of patients with a range of these disorders and it should be read by members of the mental health team dealing with this challenging clinical group.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511353185
• Artikelnr.: 38190922

Autorenporträt

Bert van Luyn is Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Head of Ambulatory Services for Longterm Psychiatric Disorders, Symfora Group, The Netherlands.
Salman Akhtar is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USA.
John Livesley is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Treatability in severe personality disorders: how far do the science and
art of psychotherapy carry us? Michael Stone; 2. The treatment of choice:
what method fits whom? John Clarkin; 3. Countertransference: recent
developments and technical implications for the treatment of patients with
severe personality disorders Otto Kernberg; 4. Beyond management to cure:
enhancing the positive dimensions of personality Robert Cloninger; 5.
Personality disorders from the perspective of child and adolescent
psychiatry Arnold Allertz and Guus van Voorst; 6. Disruptions in the course
of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis Salman Akhtar; 7. Managing suicidal
crises in patients with severe personality disorders Joel Paris; 8.
Borderline personality disorder, day hospitals, and mentalization Anthony
Bateman and Peter Fonagy; 9. Pharmacotherapy of severe personality
disorders: a critical review Thomas Rinne and Theo Ingenhoven; 10. Severe
cases: management of the refractory borderline patient Bert van Luyn; 11.
Dangerous cases: when treatment is not an option Reid Meloy and James
Reavis; 12. Stalking of therapists Paul Mullen and Rosemary Purcell; 13.
Common elements of effective treatments John Livesley.