Severe personality disorders

"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, based on the published evidence, where this is available. 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."--Page 4 of cover.

"Everyday issues in clinical practice."--Cover.

"First paperback edition 2011"--Title page verso.

Treatability in severe personality disorders : how far do the science and art of psychotherapy carry us? / Michael H. Stone -- The treatment of choice : what method fits whom? / John F. Clarkin -- Countertransference : recent developments and technical implications for the treatment of patients with severe personality disorders / Otto F. Kernberg -- Beyond management to cure : enhancing the positive dimensions of personality / C. Robert Cloninger -- Personality disorders from the perspective of child and adolescent psychiatry / Arnold Allertz and Guus van Voorst -- Disruptions in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis / Salman Akhtar -- Managing suicidal crises in patients with severe personality disorders / Joel Paris -- Borderline personality disorder, day hospitals, and mentalization / Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy -- Pharmacotherapy of severe personality disorders : a critical review / Thomas Rinne and Theo Ingenhoven -- Severe cases : management of the refractory borderline patient / Bert van Luyn -- Dangerous cases : when treatment is not an option / J. Reid Meloy and James A. Reavis -- Stalking of therapists / Paul E. Mullen and Rosemary Purcell -- Common elem…