Personality Disorders

Paul M.G. Emmelkamp is Professor of Clinical Psychology (ret.) and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam.Katharina Meyerbröker is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University and is affiliated as a licensed mental health psychologist at Altrecht Mental Health Institute.

• Acknowledgements1. Description of personality disorders 2. Diagnosis and assessment 3. Epidemiology and course 4. Risk factors for personality disorders 5. The anxious/inhibited personality disorders 6. Borderline personality disorder 7. The narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders 8. Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy 9. Schizotypal, schizoid, and paranoid personality disorders 10. Treatment of personality disordersReferencesAuthor indexSubject index

'The revised edition of this book is bang up to date and is an excellent primer to the subject. Emmelkamp and Meyerbröker have comprehensively described the jigsaw of personality disorder, in which the major pieces are well demarcated but their place in the overall pattern still remains a puzzle. What they also make clear is that personality disorder cannot be ignored or dismissed as a useless label. It is fundamental to the proper understanding of the psyche."- Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry, Imperial College, London