Severe personality disorders
by Akhtar, Salman Livesley, W. John Luyn, J. B. van
This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It covers biological, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural 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, disrup…
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- Full title :Severe personality disorders / edited by Bert van Luyn, Salman Akhtar, and W. John Livesley.
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This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It covers biological, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural 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.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 245 pages : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521856515, 0521856515, 0511354908, 9780511354908
- oclc:ocn144228598
- LC Classification:RC554
- Dewey Decimal:616.858106
Table of Contents
Treatability in severe personality disorders / Michael H. Stone -- The treatment of choice / John F. Clarkin -- Countertransference / Otto F. Kernberg -- Beyond management to cure / 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 / Thomas Rinne and Theo Ingenhoven -- Severe cases / Bert van Luyn -- Dangerous cases / J. Reid Meloy and James A. Reavis -- Stalking of therapists / Paul E. Mullen and Rosemary Percell -- Common elements of effective treatments / W. John Livesley.
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