Personality disorders

This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning personality disorders. A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personality disorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained, ma...

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Corporate Authors: John Wiley & Sons
Group Author: Maj, Mario, 1953
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: WPA series, evidence and experience in psychiatry ; v. 8
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0470090383
Summary: This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning personality disorders. A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personality disorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix, 515 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0470090367
9780470090367
0470090383
9780470090381
0470090375
9780470090374
Index Number: RC554
CLC: R749.91
Contents: Front Matter -- Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review / Josef Parnas, Deborah Licht, Pierre Bovet -- Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review / C Robert Cloninger -- Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review / Michael H Stone -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review / Elsa Ronningstam -- The Anxious Cluster of Personality Disorders: A Review / Peter Tyrer -- Obsessive₆Compulsive Personality Disorder: A Review / Paul Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin, Hillary Norton -- Epilogue. The Renaissance of the Ancient Concept of Temperament (with a Focus on Af