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Explains personality disorders, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family. If you require this information in Word document format for compatibility with screen readers, please email: publications@mind.org.uk.
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The term “disorder” is best regarded as a linguistic convenience for clinicians, denoting a degree of extremity or rigidity that causes significant dysfunc-tion, limitation, or sufering. One can have, for example, a narcissistic personality style without having narcissistic personality disorder.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS. This Handbook provides both breadth and depth regarding current approaches to the understanding, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders. The five parts of the book address etiology; models; individual disorders and clusters; assessment; and treat-ment.
Stated within the scope of professional psychology, this book seeks to provide a framework for the diagnosis, assessment, and research on person-ality disorders that is theoretically and empirically sound, clinically robust, and of assistance to future generations of psychologists and mental health professionals.
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Elements of Normal Personality Functioning. Self: Identity: Experience of oneself as unique, with clear boundaries between self and others; stability of self-esteem and accuracy of self-appraisal; capacity for, and ability to regulate, a range of emotional experience.
In this model, six traditional PD catego-ries are retained—antisocial, avoidant, borderline, narcissistic, obsessive– compulsive, and schizotypal—although they are described on a continuum by both their level of personality functioning and their constellation of pathological personality traits.
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Chapter 1 addresses thorny problems of definition and the uncertain boundary between PD and personality. Chapter 2 focuses on the relationships between traits and disorders and assesses the advan- tages and disadvantages of proposals to revised or replace the DSM-sys tem.
