Integrated treatment for personality disorder: a modular approach

Rather than arguing for one best approach for treating personality disorder, this pragmatic book emphasizes the benefits of weaving together multiple well-established intervention strategies to meet each patient's needs. A framework is provided for constructing a comprehensive case formulation, planning treatment, and developing a strong therapeutic alliance. The clinician is guided to utilize techniques from all major therapeutic orientations to address transdiagnostic personality symptoms and problems involving emotion regulation, interpersonal functioning, and self and identity. Showing how.

Why integrated treatment? : general principles of therapeutic change / W. John Livesley, Giancarlo Dimaggio & John F. Clarkin -- A general framework for integrated modular treatment / W. John Livesley & John F. Clarkin -- Diagnosis and assessment / W. John Livesley & John F. Clarkin -- Formulation and treatment planning / John F. Clarkin & W. John Livesley -- Establishing a treatment framework and therapeutic alliance / Paul S. Links, Deanna Mercer & Jon Novick -- A relational approach to personality disorder and alliance rupture / Sumru Tufekcioglu & J. Christopher Muran -- The role of mentalization in treatments for personality disorder / Anthony W. Bateman & Peter Fonagy -- Improving metacognition by accessing autobiographical memories / Giancarlo Dimaggio, Raffaele Popolo, Antonino Carcione & Giampaolo Salvatore -- Managing suicidal and other crises / Paul S. Links & Yvonne Bergmans -- Psychopharmacological considerations in integrated modular treatment / Kenneth R. Silk & Robert O. Friedel -- A modular strategy for treating emotional dysregulation / W. John Livesley -- Treating emotional schemas / Robert L. Leahy -- Adapting mindfulness for treating personality disorder / Pao…