Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, Second Edition

by Lorna Smith Benjamin PhD, Allen Frances MD (Foreword by)

Overview

This influential work helps clinicians resolve questions of overlap among diagnostic categories, offers specific and sensible suggestions for treatment interventions, and describes common transference problems in therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572308602
Publisher:	Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	12/18/2002
Series:	Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Utah and Founder of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). She has a small private practice, serves as a consultant at UNI, and gives workshops on psychotherapy with difficult cases.

Table of Contents

I. Basic Concepts
1. Introduction and Overview
2. History and Assumptions of the Approach
3. The Harmonics of Therapy
4. The Interviewing and Treatment Methods
II. DSM Cluster B, the Dramatic, Erratic Group
5. Borderline Personality Disorder
6. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
7. Histrionic Personality Disorder
8. Antisocial Personality Disorder
III. DSM Cluster C, the Anxious, Fearful Group
9. Dependent Personality Disorder
10. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
11. Negativistic Personality (Disorder): Personality Disorder, NOS
12. Avoidant Personality Disorder
IV. DSM Cluster A, the Odd, Eccentric Group
13. Paranoid Personality Disorder
14. Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders
V. Divergences
15. Category Overlap, Residual Categories, and Other Issues
Appendix: Summary of Diagnostic and Differential
Indicators

Interviews

Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, residents in psychiatry, and graduate students in clinical psychology and social work. Serves as a text for courses in psychopathology, personality, and personality disorders.

Editorial Reviews

"After reading this book, therapists...will likely find their diagnostic skills enhanced and their conceptualization efforts more sophisticated, experience a heightened sense of empathy for their patients' difficulties in living, and find their treatment efforts more efficacious."

Contemporary Psychology

"For those of us who practice psychotherapy and especially who work with the personality disorders, this book will be an invaluable tool."

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Presents a unifying theory of personality disorders, looking at issues such as overlap among diagnostic categories and transference problems, and offering specific suggestions for treatment. After an introduction to the interpersonal approach and the author's Structured Analysis of Social Behavior, each of the disorders is defined and described, with case examples. This second edition conforms to DSM-IV, and features expanded material on several disorders. For graduates and residents in psychiatry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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