The Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders

Thomas A. Widiger, Ph.D., is T. Marshall Hahn Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky.

• 1. Preface ; Thomas A. Widiger ; Part One: Introduction and Clinical Description ; 2. Historical Developments and Current Issues ; Thomas A. Widiger ; 3. Diagnosis and DSM-5: Work in Progress ; Andrew Skodol ; 4. The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality: A Useful Tool for Diagnosis and Classification of Personality Disorder ; Eunyoe Ro, Deborah Stringer, and Lee Anna Clark ; 5. An Integration of Normal and Abnormal Personality: The Five-Factor Model ; Thomas A. Widiger, Douglas B. Samuel, Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt, Whitney L. Gore, and Cristina Crego ; 6. Assessment of Personality disorders and Related Traits: Bridging DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 ; Joshua D. Miller, Lauren Few, and Thomas A. Widiger ; Part Two: Construct Validity ; 7. Behavior and Molecular Genetics of Personality Disorders ; Susan C. South, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Nicholas R. Eaton, and Robert F. Krueger ; 8. Childhood Antecedents of Personality Disorders ; Filip De Fruyt and Barbara De Clercq ; 9. Epidemiology ; Svenn Torgersen ; 10. Gender and Personality Disorders ; Thomas F. Oltmanns and Abigail D. Powers ; 11. Axis II Comorbidity ; Timothy J. Trull, Emily M. Scheiderer, and Rachel L. Tomko ; 12. The Relationship of Personality Disorders and Axis I Clinical Disorders ; Paul S. Links, Jamal Y Ansari, Fatima Fazalullash, and Ravi Shah ; 13. Cultural Aspects of Personality Disorder ; Roger T. Mulder ; 14. Course of Personality Disorder ; Leslie C. Morey and Justin K. Meyer ; Part Three: Psychopathology ; 15. Neurobiological Contributions ; Panos Roussos and Larry J. Siever ; 16. Cognitive Contributions to Personality Disorder ; Jill Lobbestael and Arnoud Arntz ; 17. Psychodynamic Models of Personality Disorders ; Peter Fonagy and Patrick Luyten ; 18. A Contemporary Interpersonal Model of Personality Pathology and Personality Disorder ; Aaron L. Pincus and Christopher J. Hopwood ; 19. Pathology of Personality Disorder: An Integrative Perspective ; Joel Paris ; Part Four: Individual Personality Disorders ; 20. Borderline Personality Disorder ; Jill M. Hooley, Sadie H. Cole, and Stephanie Gironde ; 21. Schizotypal Personality Disorder: An Integrative Review ; Thomas R. Kwapil and Neus Barrantes-Vidal ; 22. Psychopathy ; Robert D. Hare, Craig S. Neumann, and Thomas A. Widiger ; 23. Dependent Personality Disorder ; Robert F. Bornstein ; 24. Narcissistic Personality Disorder: The Diagnostic Process ; Elsa Ronningstam ; 25. Avoidant Personality Disorder, Traits, and Type ; Charles A. Sanislow, Katelin da Cruz, May O. Gianoli, and Elizabeth Reagan ; 26. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder ; Jack Samuels and Paul T. Costa ; 27. Paranoid and Schizoid Personality Disorders ; Christopher J. Hopwood and Katherine M. Thomas ; 28. The Death of Histrionic Personality Disorder ; Roger K. Blashfield, Shannon M. Reynolds, and Bethany Stennett ; 29. Depressive Personality Disorder ; R. Michael Bagby, Chris Watson, and Andrew G. Ryder ; 30. The Alexithymia Personality Dimension ; Graeme J. Taylor and R. Michael Bagby ; 31. Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: The Demise of a Syndrome ; Scott Wetzler and Anita Jose ; 32. Racism and Pathological Bias as a Co-Occurring Problem in Diagnosis and Assessment ; Carl C. Bell and Edward Dunbar ; Part Five: Treatment ; 33. Psychopharmacology of Personality Disorders ; Kenneth R. Silk and Louis Feurino, III ; 34. Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders ; Robert L. Leahy and Lata K. McGinn ; 35. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders ; John C. Markowitz ; 36. Mentalization Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder ; Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy ; 37. Dialectical Behavior Therapy of Borderline and Other Personality Disorders ; Thomas R. Lynch and Prudence F. Cuper ; Part Six: Conclusions ; 38. Future Directions of Personality Disorder ; Thomas A. Widiger

The Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders testifies to the fields vitality: It documents a rich and varied literature spanning basic biological mechanisms and cultural influences that will appeal to researchers and clinicians alike and indeed to anyone with an interest in mental health seeking an in-depth understanding of personality disorder. Anyone who has read the 38 chapters cannot but be impressed by the wealth of information that has accumulated in the 30-plus years since the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMIII; American Psychiatric Association, 1980) was published... It provides a comprehensive overview so that anyone reading it will be well informed about the current state of personality disorder research and practice. I am not familiar with any other volume that is as comprehensive or as up to date.