Personality Disorders Are Among The Mental Disorders For Which The Gap Between Research Evidence And Clinical Practice Is Most Significant. They Are Currently Underdiagnosed And Undertreated. Even If An Appropriate Diagnosis Is Made, Treatment Is Rarely Evidence-based. This Book Aims To Review Recent Progress And Current Controversies In This Area, Providing A Guide To Clinicians And A Contribution To The Ongoing Revision Of The Main Classification Systems. Personality Disorders Is An Unbiased And Reliable Reference Point For All Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses And Policy Makers.--jacket. Ch. 1. Schizotypal, Schizoid And Paranoid Disorders -- Cluster A Personality Disorders : A Review / Josef Parnas, Deborah Licht And Pierre Bovet -- Commentaries -- Paul E. Meehl's Model Of Schizotypy And Schizophrenia / Mark F. Lenzenweger -- Whatever Happened To Healthy Schizotypy? / Gordon Claridge -- Genetic Enhancements To Schizotypy Theorizing / Irving I. Gottesman And L. Erlenmeyer-kimling -- Cluster A Personality Disorders : Unanswered Questions About Epidemiological, Evolutionary And Genetic Aspects / Matti Isohanni And Pekka Tienari -- Schizotypy And Schizophrenia / Joachim Klosterkotter -- Parsing The Schizophrenia Spectrum / Loring J. Ingraham -- The Future Of Cluster A Personality Disorders / Ming T. Tsuang And William S. Stone -- Schizotypal Personality Disorder And Phenotype Specification For Genetic Studies Of Schizophrenia / Jeremy M. Silverman -- A Developmental, Behavioural Genetic Look At Schizotypal Disorder / Marco Battaglia --^ The Premorbid Personality Background Of Psychotic Disorders / Victor Peralta And Manuel J. Cuesta -- Changing Boundaries At Different Levels Of Validity / Erik Simonsen -- Finding The Right Level Of Analysis / Richard P. Bentall -- Search For A Systematic Approach To The Diagnosis Of Personality Disorders / Jan Libiger -- Schizotypal Personality Disorder -- A Minor Variant Of Schizophrenia? / Ana Cristina Chaves -- Diagnosis Versus Classification In Psychiatry / Robert Cancro -- Cluster A Personality Disorders : Conundrums And New Directions / David L. Braff -- Have Paranoid And Schizoid Personality Disorders Become Dispensable Diagnoses? / David P. Bernstein -- Ch. 2. Antisocial Disorder -- Antisocial Personality Disorder : A Review / C. Robert Cloninger -- Commentaries -- Understanding The Antisocial Personality Disorder And Psychopathy Professional Literature / Carl B. Gacono -- Developmental Perspectives On Self-awareness In Antisocial Personality Disorder / Jonathan Hill --^ The Complexity Of Antisocial Behaviour / John M. Oldham -- Assessing Research On Antisocial Personality / Lee N. Robins -- Antisocial Or Social Adaptation / Janine L. Stevenson -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- The Forgotten Patients Of Psychiatry / Donald W. Black -- A New Conceptualization Of Antisocial Personality Disorder / Conor Duggan -- Cloninger's Theory Of Antisocial Personality Disorder / Thomas A. Widiger -- An Uphill Battle Being Won / Renato D. Alarcon -- Public Health Approaches To Antisocial Personality Disorder / Giovanni De Girolamo And Mariano Bassi -- Antisocial Personality Disorder In Its Cultural Context / Levent Kuey And Omer Aydemir -- Ch. 3. Borderline And Histrionic Disorders -- Borderline And Histrionic Personality Disorders : A Review / Michael H. Stone -- Commentaries -- From Shifting Diagnoses To Empirically-based Diagnostic Constructs / W. John Livesley -- What Is A Personality Disorder, A Set Of Traits Or Symptoms? / Allan Tasman --^ Mentalization And Borderline Personality Disorder / Anthony W. Bateman -- Complex And Diverse, Yet Similar? / Sigmund Karterud, Theresa Wilberg And Oyvind Urnes -- The Need For New Paradigms In The Research Approaches To Borderline Personality Disorder / Larry J. Siever -- Borderline Personality Disorder : From Clinical Heterogeneity To Diagnostic Coherence / Cesare Maffei -- Borderline Personality Disorder : Problems Of Definition And Complex Aetiology / Jiri Modestin -- Some Problems In The Current Conceptualization Of Borderline And Histrionic Personality Disorders / Enrique Baca Baldomero -- Borderline (and Histrionic) Personality Disorders : Boundaries, Epidemiology, Genetics And Treatment / Svenn Torgersen -- Categorical Conundrums / John F. Clarkin -- Are Cyclothymic Temperament And Borderline And Histrionic Personality Related Concepts? / Giulio Perugi -- Borderline And Histrionic Personality Disorders : Implications For Health Services / Brian Martindale --^ Psychotherapy For Borderline Personality Disorder : Some Tentative Interpretations Of The Available Empirical Findings / Roel Verheul -- How To Cope With The Burden Of Trying To Help A Borderline Patient? / Vera Lemgruber -- Borderline Personality Disorder : A Complex Disorder, But Not Just Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder / Christian Schmahl -- Borderline Personality Disorder Between Axis I And Axis Ii Diagnosis / Tarek A. Okasha -- Histrionic And Borderline Personality Disorders : A View From Latin America / Nestor M.s. Koldobsky -- Ch. 4. Narcissistic Disorder -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder : A Review / Elsa Ronningstam -- Commentaries -- Personality Pathology As Pathological Narcissism / Leslie C. Morey -- Narcissism Within Psychiatry : Past And Future Perspectives / Eric M. Plakun -- Some Psychodynamics Of Narcissistic Pathology / Arnold M. Cooper -- Complexity Of Narcissism And A Continuum Of Self-esteem Regulation / Paul J. Watson --^ Narcissism : Psychodynamic Theme And Personality Disorder / Robert Michels -- Of Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder And Normal Personality / Mark A. Blais -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder : The Cassel Hospital Experience / Kevin Healy -- Narcissistic Personalities : Pathobiographies And Research Findings From Latin America / Ramon U. Florenzano -- Ch. 5. The Anxious Cluster -- The Anxious Cluster Of Personality Disorders : A Review / Peter Tyrer -- Commentaries -- Theory, Contexts, Prototypes And Subtypes / Theodore Millon -- Anxious Cluster Personality Disorders : Perspectives From The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study / Andrew E. Skodol -- Personality In Anxiety Disorders / Matig R. Mavissakalian -- Minima Moralia On Cluster C Personality Disorders / Carlo Faravelli -- Anxious Cluster Personality Disorders And Axis I Anxiety Disorders : Comments On The Comorbidity Issue / M. Tracie Shea --^ Cluster C Personality Disorders : Utility And Stability / Timothy J. Trull And Stephanie D. Stepp -- Anxiety, Avoidance And Personality -- A Dynamic Borderland / Dusica Lecic-tosevski And Mirjana Divac-jovanovic -- A Theoretical Model Of Cluster C Personality Disorders / Joel Paris -- Anxious Cluster Personality Disorders : The Need For Further Empirical Data / Julien Daniel Guelfi -- Quest For A Clinically Useful Diagnosis / Marco Antonio Alves Brasil And Luiz Alberto B. Hetem -- The Anxious Cluster : A Descriptive Disguise For Diversity In Personality Classification / Fuad Antun -- Beyond The Anxious Traits / Miguel Marquez -- Ch. 6. Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : A Review / Paul Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin And Hillary Norton -- Commentaries -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : Elusive For Whom? / Glen O. Gabbard --^ Clinical Challenges Of Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder / Albert Rothenberg -- Obsessive-compulsive Character / David Shapiro -- Understanding And Measuring Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : The Jury Is Still Out / Lucy Serpell And Varsha Hirani -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder: Not Just A Mere Problem In Living / Eric Hollander And Lisa Sharma -- Psychiatry Trapped In Obsessive-compulsive Overdiagnosing? / Iver Hand And Susanne Fricke -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : Personality Or Disorder? / Gerald Nestadt And Mark Riddle -- Cognitive Therapy For The Perfectionism Dimension? / Jean Cottraux -- Anankastic And Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder In Icd-10 And Dsm-iv-tr / Charles Pull And Marie-claire Pull -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : A Discrete Disorder? / Tom G. Bolwig -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder Or Negative Perfectionism? / Stefano Pallanti --^ Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : Response To Pharmacological Treatment / Marc Ansseau -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : Relationship To Childhood Onset Ocd And Diagnostic Stability / Per Hove Thomsen -- Figure And Background : Challenges In Trying To Understand Axis I And Axis Ii Interactions / Albina Rodrigues Torres -- Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder : The African Dilemmas / Frank G. Njenga, Anna N. Nguithi And Rachel N. Kangethe. Epilogue : The Renaissance Of The Ancient Concept Of Temperament (with A Focus On Affective Temperaments) / Hagop S. Akiskal And Kareen Akiskal. Edited By Mario Maj ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available In An Electronic Version. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.