Personality Disorder

The Definitive Reader

AvCaroline Jacob,Dr Gwen Adshead

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Personality Disorder 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-11-15
Mått:154 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Forensic Focus
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN:9781843106401

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Mer om författaren

Gwen Adshead, MBBS,MA,FRCPsych is a consultant forensic psychiatrist, forensic psychotherapist, forensic researcher and psychiatrist specialising in trauma. Caroline Jacob, MBChB, MSc, MRCPsych is in her third year as a specialist registrar, training in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. She is currently based with psychotherapy and forensic services in Bristol but also works at Broadmoor hospital on a sessional basis.

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`This book is excellent value for anyone who has had difficulty working with clients who have personality disorder - but then isn't that just about everyone?'

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Contributors. Part 1 Theory: Aetiology and Psychopathology. 1. The Relationship Between Severity of Personality Disorder and Certain Adverse Childhood Influences. Michael Craft, Geoffrey Stephenson and Clive Granger 1964. 2. Care-Eliciting Behaviour in Man. Scott Henderson, 1974. Points for Reflective Practice. Part II Clinical Implications. 3. Hate in the Countertransference. D.W. Winnicott, 1947. 4. Taking Care of the Hateful Patient. James E. Groves, 1978. 5. The Ailment. T.F. Main, 1976. 6. Malignant Alienation: Dangers for Patients who are Hard to Like. Darell Watts and Gethin Morgan, 1994. 7. Malignant Alienation. Mary Whittle, 1997. 8. The Beginning of Wisdom is Never Calling a Patient a Borderline. George Valliant, 1992. 9. Psychiatric Staff as Attachment Figures: Understanding Management Problems in Psychiatric Services in the Light of Attachment Theory. Gwen Adshead, 1998. 10. In the Prison on Severe Personality Disorder. Kingsley Norton, 1997. Points for Reflective Practice. Part III Treatment and Management. 11. Murmurs of Discontent: Treatment and Treatability of Personality Disorder. Gwen Adshead, 2001. 12. Management of Difficult Personality Disorder Patients. Kingsley Norton, 1996. 13. Problems in the Management of Borderline Patients in Inpatient Settings. Marcus Evans, 1998. 14. Ten Traps for Therapists in the Treatment of Trauma Survivors. James A. Chu, 1988. 15. Severe Personality Disorder: Treatment Issues and Selection for In-patient Psychotherapy. Kingsley Norton and R.D. Hinshelwood, 1996. 16. The Concept of Boundaries in Clinical Practice: Theoretical and Risk-Management Decisions. Thomas Gutheil and Glen O. Gabbard, 1993. Points for Reflective Practice.