Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader

Editor : Gwen Adshead, Editor : Caroline Jacob

Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader

Book Details

  • Publisher : Jessica Kingsley
  • Published : 2009
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 278
  • Category :
    Clinical Psychology
  • Category 2 :
    Forensic
  • Catalogue No : 28015
  • ISBN 13 : 9781843106401
  • ISBN 10 : 184310640X
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Offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders. This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address the impact that working with personality disorder patients can have on staff. It also offers theoretical explanations for personality disorder, and explores other issues such as the concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff as attachment figures and the relationship between severity of personality disorder and childhood experiences. Each paper is introduced with contextual material, and is followed by a series of questions that are intended to be used as educational exercises. This book will be essential reading for clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, social workers and students.

About the Editor(s)

Dr. Gwen Adshead is a leading psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Alongside her continuing work at Broadmoor Hospital as a Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, where she runs psychotherapuetic groups for offenders, she also works in a medium secure unit in Hampshire. She has published a number of academic books and over one hundred papers. She was honoured with the President's Medal for services to psychiatry in 2013.

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