Clinical Topics in Personality Disorder

For healthcare professionals, psychiatric trainees, those working in forensic services, and those on mental health teams, Sarkar, a psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore, and Adshead, a forensic psychotherapist in the UK, compile 20 chapters on personality disorder (including five new ones and 15 updated articles previously published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment). Contributed by mental health professionals from the UK, Australia, and Spain, the articles discuss the nature of personality disorder; differences between psychopathy and other personality disorders; challenges in the treatment of dangerous and severe personality disorder; paranoid personality disorder; the disorder in older people, women, and adolescence; management in the acute setting; assessment; diagnosis and classification; treatment; the impact on staff and the role of supervision; and specific treatment approaches, including skills-based therapies, insight-oriented therapies, mindfulness, cognitive analytic therapy for borderline personality disorder, complex treatment, and nidotherapy. Distributed by Publishers Storage and Shipping Company, Fitchburg, MA. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the editors:
Jaydip Sarkar – Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, East Midlands Centre for Forensic Mental Health, Leicester.
Gwen Adshead – Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, Berks.