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Personality Disordered Patients: Treatable and Untreatable

Author(s) : Michael H. Stone

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This guideline structured book:

* Covers all personality disorders-including ones not addressed in the latest DSM such as sadistic, depressive, hypomanic, and irritable-explosive
* Identifies both attributes necessary for treatability and factors associated with low treatability
* Pays particular attention to borderline disorders, which represent the most discussed conditions and are among the most challenging to psychotherapists
* Reviews personality traits whose presence, if intense-even if unaccompanied by a definable personality disorder-creates severe problems for psychotherapy

Numerous case studies throughout the book provide examples that will help therapists determine which of their own patients are most likely to benefit from their efforts and thereby establish their own limits of effectiveness. By alerting practitioners to when therapy is likely to fail, these guidelines can help them avoid the professional disappointment of being unable to reach the most intractable patients.

Contents

Preface. Amenability to treatment in the realm of personality disorder. Personality disorders most amenable to psychotherapy: borderline personality disorder. Personality disorders most amenable to psychotherapy: the anxious cluster and related disorders. Personality disorders of intermediate amenability to psychotherapy: borderline personality disorder. Personality disorders of intermediate amenability to psychotherapy: other personality disorders. Personality disorders of low amenability to psychotherapy: borderline personality disorder. Personality disorders of low amenability to psychotherapy: other personality disorders. Personality traits at the edge of treatability. Untreatable personality disorders. Afterword. References. Index.