Konrad Banicki is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is a philosopher, psychologist, and cognitive-behavioral therapist as well as a convenor of the Understanding Personality Disorders network associated with St Catherine's College Oxford. Peter Zachar is Professor of Psychology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He Is the author of two previous books, Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (2000) and A Metaphysics of Psychopathology (2014), and has served as editor or co-editor of seven additional volumes.

'Banicki and Zachar have assembled the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of original works about personality disorders that has ever been published. Their book encompasses multiple theoretical perspectives on these conditions as well as deeply researched empirical studies. Conceptualizing Personality Disorder is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the various personality disorders.' Allan V. Horwitz, Distinguished Board of Governors Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Rutgers University

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: personality disorder and the philosophy of psychopathology Peter Zachar and Konrad Banicki; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1. How personality disorder became an independent domain in psychopathology: a history Peter Zachar; 2. Ribot's novel approach to character pathology: from normal indecisiveness to the madness of doubt Jeanne Proust; 3. What can the dimensional model of personality disorders learn from Mischel's classical challenge to the trait theory of personality? Eisuke Sakakibara; Part II. Contemporary Approaches to Traditional Conceptual Perspectives: 4. The psychodynamic core of personality disorder: contemporary concepts and methods Mark Waugh; 5. Multiple roads to pathology: a complex systems perspective on personality disorders Angélique O. J. Cramer and Denny Borsboom; 6. A contemporary integrative interpersonal theory formulation of borderline and narcissistic pathology Aidan G. C. Wright and Sienna R. Nielsen; 7. The inflexible self and lived time: a phenomenological approach to personality disorders Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt and Thomas Fuchs; 8. Psychopharmacology and personality disorder: treatment or enhancement? Stefan Jerotic and Milutin Kostic; 9. When do personality traits become pathological? An epistemological and evolutionary view Simone Cheli and Martin Brüne; Part III. Novel Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder: 10. What does personality have to do with mental disorder? A cybernetic perspective Colin G. DeYoung and Robert F. Krueger; 11. Self-illness ambiguity in personality disorders: Is it me or my disorder (that makes me do X)? Roy Dings, Nina de Boer, Léon de Bruin and Gerrit Glas; 12. On personality dimensions and disorders: is a trait-based approach really the answer? Simon Boag; 13. A dual aspect approach to personality disorder: locating the normal in the abnormal Huw Green; 14. Network architectures of personality and its pathology Annemarie C. J. Köhne and Adela-Maria Isvoranu; 15. From Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be to radical acceptance and radical openness: or spiritually-based dialectical approaches to neurotic character Konrad Banicki; 16. Personality 'disorder' and the incapacity to self-regulate: answering practical and metaphysical questions Garson Leder and Tadeusz Zawidzki; Part IV. Exploring Negative Consequences of Diagnosing Personality Disorder: 17. Aversive and antagonistic personality disorder: a post-colonial analysis Grant Gillett and Armon J. Tamatea; 18. Right to be angry: affective injustice and borderline personality disorder Astrid Fly Oredsson and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Part V. Perspectives on Borderline and Narcissistic Personality: 19. How and why emptiness manifests in everyday life: borderline personality disorder and beyond Nancy Nyquist Potter; 20. Empathy deficits in the development and maintenance of narcissistic personality disorder Thomas Schramme; 21. Interaffectivity disturbances in narcissistic personality disorder Susi Ferrarello; 22. Narrative accounts of the self: differentiating narcissistic from non-narcissistic personalities Louise Williams.

Konrad Banicki is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is a philosopher, psychologist, and cognitive-behavioral therapist as well as a convenor of the Understanding Personality Disorders network associated with St Catherine's College Oxford. Peter Zachar is Professor of Psychology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He Is the author of two previous books, Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (2000) and A Metaphysics of Psychopathology (2014), and has served as editor or co-editor of seven additional volumes.

'Banicki and Zachar have assembled the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of original works about personality disorders that has ever been published. Their book encompasses multiple theoretical perspectives on these conditions as well as deeply researched empirical studies. Conceptualizing Personality Disorder is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the various personality disorders.' Allan V. Horwitz, Distinguished Board of Governors Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Rutgers University

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: personality disorder and the philosophy of psychopathology Peter Zachar and Konrad Banicki; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1. How personality disorder became an independent domain in psychopathology: a history Peter Zachar; 2. Ribot's novel approach to character pathology: from normal indecisiveness to the madness of doubt Jeanne Proust; 3. What can the dimensional model of personality disorders learn from Mischel's classical challenge to the trait theory of personality? Eisuke Sakakibara; Part II. Contemporary Approaches to Traditional Conceptual Perspectives: 4. The psychodynamic core of personality disorder: contemporary concepts and methods Mark Waugh; 5. Multiple roads to pathology: a complex systems perspective on personality disorders Angélique O. J. Cramer and Denny Borsboom; 6. A contemporary integrative interpersonal theory formulation of borderline and narcissistic pathology Aidan G. C. Wright and Sienna R. Nielsen; 7. The inflexible self and lived time: a phenomenological approach to personality disorders Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt and Thomas Fuchs; 8. Psychopharmacology and personality disorder: treatment or enhancement? Stefan Jerotic and Milutin Kostic; 9. When do personality traits become pathological? An epistemological and evolutionary view Simone Cheli and Martin Brüne; Part III. Novel Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder: 10. What does personality have to do with mental disorder? A cybernetic perspective Colin G. DeYoung and Robert F. Krueger; 11. Self-illness ambiguity in personality disorders: Is it me or my disorder (that makes me do X)? Roy Dings, Nina de Boer, Léon de Bruin and Gerrit Glas; 12. On personality dimensions and disorders: is a trait-based approach really the answer? Simon Boag; 13. A dual aspect approach to personality disorder: locating the normal in the abnormal Huw Green; 14. Network architectures of personality and its pathology Annemarie C. J. Köhne and Adela-Maria Isvoranu; 15. From Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be to radical acceptance and radical openness: or spiritually-based dialectical approaches to neurotic character Konrad Banicki; 16. Personality 'disorder' and the incapacity to self-regulate: answering practical and metaphysical questions Garson Leder and Tadeusz Zawidzki; Part IV. Exploring Negative Consequences of Diagnosing Personality Disorder: 17. Aversive and antagonistic personality disorder: a post-colonial analysis Grant Gillett and Armon J. Tamatea; 18. Right to be angry: affective injustice and borderline personality disorder Astrid Fly Oredsson and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Part V. Perspectives on Borderline and Narcissistic Personality: 19. How and why emptiness manifests in everyday life: borderline personality disorder and beyond Nancy Nyquist Potter; 20. Empathy deficits in the development and maintenance of narcissistic personality disorder Thomas Schramme; 21. Interaffectivity disturbances in narcissistic personality disorder Susi Ferrarello; 22. Narrative accounts of the self: differentiating narcissistic from non-narcissistic personalities Louise Williams.