Explores today's most common psychological disorders by examining their symptoms, causes, and effects; highlights the brain chemistry behind the disorders; and demonstrates how various treatments affect the brain to help ease or eliminate symptoms.
Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
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.
Concisely explains major personality disorders and illustrates each with examples from daily life.
This new addition to the Practical Guides in Psychiatry series is a clinically oriented pocket guide to diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders.
Explanatory models of personality, which may vary from culture to culture, must also be studied from an anthropological perspective. More specifically, research needs to be done to specify those variations in personality disorder that ...
Details each of the 10 personality disorders, in a format that makes locating information easy. Personality Disorders systematically explores 10 personality disorders.
A study of the separation - individuation process and its possible application to borderline phenomena in the psychoanalytic situation . Psychoanalytic Study of the Child ... From Borderline Adolescent to Functioning Adult .
This volume provides readers with all the information they need to know about personality disorders, including how to assess, treat, manage, and diagnose the varying signs and symptoms of the 10 different personality disorders currently ...
This work offers an evaluation of competing theoretical perspectives and nosological systems for personality disorders.