Psychotherapy for Personality Disorder Anthony W. Bateman Peter Fonagy Introduction Psychotherapy has historically been the mainstay of treatment for personality disorder (PD). It remains so. Psychoanalysis was probably the earliest…
Neuropsychological Templates for Abnormal Personalities: From Genes to Biodevelopmental Pathways Adolf Tobeña The scaffolding of personality Research on human personality has converged upon a ‘consensual pathway’ indicating that a small…
Epidemiology of Personality Disorders Francesca Guzzetta Giovanni de Girolamo Introduction tbegun to be scientifically investigated. This development has taken place because a number of standardized instruments to assess personality and…
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…
