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Personality Disorders: Toward the DSM-V offers a scientifically balanced evaluation of competing theoretical perspectives and nosological systems for personality disorders. Editors William T. O'Donohue, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Katherine A. Fowler have brought together recognized authorities in the field to offer a synthesis of competing perspectives that provide readers with the richest and most nuanced assessment possible for each disorder. The result is a comprehensive, current, and critical summary of research and practice guidelines related to the personality disorders.
Key Features
Focuses on controversies and alternative conceptualizations: Separate chapters are dedicated to each personality disorder and considered from various points of view.; Presents authoritative perspectives: Leading scholars and researchers in the field provide a critical evaluation of alternative perspectives on each personality disorder.; Frames the current state of personality disorder research and practice issues: Cutting edge and streamlined research is presented to be used in courses on diagnosis, assessment, psychopathology and abnormal psychology, especially those that include the DSM-IV.; Offers an integrative understanding of elusive personality categorizations: Wherever possible, case examples are offered as illustrations of each disorder's clinical presentation.; Minimizes the use of technical terms: Each contributor takes the approach of a user-friendly summary and integration of major trends, findings, and future directions.
Intended Audience
This is an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on adult psychopathology in the departments of psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and marriage and family therapy.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is familiar to clinicians who attend to personality pathology and to literature devotees who ponder the nature of superficially dramatic, manipulative, and insatiably attention-seeking characters such as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire. Millon, Grossman, Millon, Meagher, and Ramnath (2004) provided the following description of HPD across nine clinical domains: behavioral acts are dramatic, interpersonal conduct is attention seeking, cognitive style is flighty, self-image is gregarious, representations of others are shallow, regulatory mechanisms rely on dissociation, the psychic structure is disjointed, and the mood and temperament are fickle. Despite its familiar feel, HPD remains enshrouded in a degree of historical confusion and conceptual uncertainty that researchers ...
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