Psychodynamic psychotherapy for personality disorders

This well-documented and articulate manual gathers in one place the psychodynamic psychotherapy thinking and research on each of the Axis II personality disorders. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A Clinical Handbook includes the work of 22 contributing writers in addition to the three primary authors, John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. Each contributor has extensive clinical experience, and some also have research experience, with the assessment and treatment of specific personality disorders. The focus of the book is the psychodynamic conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of the personality disorders as currently described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The 16 chapters are divided into sections that address the definition of personality pathology, approaches to treatment, and research for future directions. The authors conclude that to the surprise of many new research and reviews indicate that psychodynamic treatments are effective for personality disorders, and their impact is as great as that of cognitive-behavioral treatments.An object relations model of personality and personality pathology / Eve Caligor, John F. Clarkin. Attachment and personality pathology / Peter Fonagy ... [et al.]. Neurobiology of personality disorders / Gerhard Roth, Anna Buchheim. The Shedler-Westen assessment procedure : making personality diagnosis clinically meaningful / Jonathan Shedler, Drew Westen. Psychotherapeutic treatment of cluster A personality disorders / Paul Williams. Mentalization-based treatment and borderline personality disorder / Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy. Transference-focused psychotherapy and borderline personality disorder / Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond. Therapeutic action in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder / Glen O. Gabbard. Narcissistic personality disorder / Otto F. Kernberg. Treatment of histrionic personality disorder / Mardi J. Horowitz, Uma Lerner. Psychodynamic treatment of antisocial personality disorder / J. Reid Meloy, Jessica Yakeley. Cluster C personality disorders : prevalence, phenomenology, treatment effects, and principles of treatment / Martin Svartberg, Leigh McCullough. Psychodynamic approaches integrated into day treatment and inpatient settings / William E. Piper, Paul I. Steinberg. Treatability of personality disorders : possibilities and limitations / Michael H. Stone. Evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy in personality disorders : a review / Falk Leichsenring. Psychodynamic treatment planning and the official diagnostic system : toward DSM-V / John M. Oldham