Specific Types of Personality Disorder José Luis Carrasco Dusica Lecic-Tosevski Cluster A personality disorders Paranoid personality disorder Pervasive suspiciousness, mistrust, hypersensitivity to criticism, and hostility are the essential features of…
Diagnosis and Classification of Personality Disorders James Reich Giovanni de Girolamo Definitions of personality disorders There has been considerable interest in the study of personality and personality disorder (PD) since…
Personality Disorders: An Introductory Perspective Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. The goal of psychiatry is the study of mental illnesses. In this chapter we consider the degree to which personality disorders…
Gender Identity Disorder in Adults Richard Green History The behavioural phenomenon of transsexualism (now gender identity disorder) is ancient. It has been recorded for centuries and in a broad range…
The Paraphilias J. Paul Fedoroff Clinical features Definition of the condition The characteristic essential to all paraphilias is the presence of a persistent and/or recurrent, sexually motivated interest that causes…
The Sexual Dysfunctions Cynthia A. Graham John Bancroft Introduction Sexual relationships are central to the lives of most of us. The sexual component of those relationships can go wrong in…
Normal Sexual Function Roy J. Levin Introduction Normal sexual function means different things to different people. It is studied by a variety of disciplines: biology, physiology, psychology, medicine (in the…
Bulimia Nervosa Christopher G. Fairburn Zafra Cooper Rebecca Murphy Introduction Origins of the concept The history of the diagnosis bulimia nervosa begins as recently as 1979. It was in this…
Anorexia Nervosa Gerald Russell Introduction: history of ideas Two different approaches may be discerned in the conceptualization of anorexia nervosa. 1 The medicoclinical approach defines the illness in terms of…
Depersonalization Disorder Nick Medford Mauricio Sierra Anthony S. David Introduction Depersonalization, a term coined by Dugas in 1898,(1) is defined in DSM-IV as ‘an alteration in the experience of self…
