Evidence-Based Treatment of Personality Dysfunction

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist who has been in clinical practice for close to 3 years. He served as an adjunct professor in clinical psychology at the University of Hartford, where he taught and supervised doctoral students.  Dr. Magnavita has received awards for his work in science and practice. In 2 , he received the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector for his work developing a theoretical framework for unified clinical science called personality systematics.  He is the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project, whose mission is to catalogue the methods and techniques of unified psychotherapy.  Dr. Magnavita has been featured in two APA videotapes demonstrating personality-guided therapy using a unified approach. He has published extensively and has authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach ( 997), Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders (2 ), Personality-Guided Relational Therapy: A Unified Approach (2 5), and a textbook, Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality (2 2). He also was the volume editor of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol. . Psychodynamic/Object Relations (2 2) and the Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice (2 4). He serves on the editorial board of a number of leading publications and has been a guest editor of a number of special editions of journals.  He was elected to serve as the president of APA's Division of Psychotherapy in 2 and has presented his work at various conferences and symposiums. He runs ongoing seminars in psychotherapy using videotape recordings as the vehicle for examining the process and technical aspects of treatment.  Dr. Magnavita lives in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, with his wife Anne and three daughters, Elizabeth, Emily, and Caroline.

• ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTheory and Practice of Evidence About Treatment of Personality Dysfunction Jeffrey J. Magnavita and William B. StilesEvidence-Based Assessment and Instrumentation for Personality Disorders Stephen StrackDialectical Behavior Therapy Clive J. Robins, M. Zachary Rosenthal, and Prudence F. CuperEvidence-Based Psychodynamic Therapy With Personality Disorders Stanley B. Messer and Allan A. AbbassEvidence-Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy With Personality Disorders: Theory, Components, and Strategies Jack C. Anchin and Aaron L. PincusA Relational Approach to the Treatment of Personality Dysfunction J. Christopher Muran, Catherine Eubanks-Carter, and Jeremy D. SafranCouples and Family Therapy for Personality Disorders Jay L. Lebow and Amanda A. UliaszekIntegrated Treatment: Combining Effective Treatment Principles and Methods W. John LivesleyMethods, Components, and Strategies of Unified Treatment: Using Evidence and Personality Systematics to Enhance Outcome Jeffrey J. MagnavitaTreatment Planning and Formatting: Combining Science and Art in Implementing the Framework of Therapy Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Kenneth L. Critchfield, and Louis G. CastonguayIndexAbout the Editor