Personality Disorders

Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People Through Creativity demonstrates how dramatherapy can empower those individuals struggling to live with borderline personality disorder, and help them embrace and control...

The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders reviews and advances this innovative and increasingly popular scheme for diagnosing and evaluating personality disorders. The authors identify the multiple clinical, theoretical, and research...

The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology, and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV, the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core...

Sexual offenders are surrounded by mythology, fascination, and revulsion. Sex offenders present difficult and complicated issues interpersonally, as well as in treatment and management. Most people do not understand why and how someone who sexually...

Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gained sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered...

Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing therapeutic interventions. Psychopathology currently...

Acclaimed for its wisdom and no-nonsense style, this authoritative guide has now been revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting a decade of advances in the field. Distinguished psychiatrist Joel Paris distills current knowledge about...

What is emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), also known as BPD, and how can people with EUPD learn how to manage their emotions more skillfully and effectively? Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits is a self-help...

The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders reviews and advances this innovative and increasingly popular scheme for diagnosing and evaluating personality disorders. The authors identify the multiple clinical, theoretical, and research...

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A brief, practical guide to the most current research on and treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with severe emotion dysregulation, widespread impulsivity, and highly unstable...

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What is emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), also known as BPD, and how can people with EUPD learn how to manage their emotions more skillfully and effectively? Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits is a self-help...