Personality Disorders: Toward Theoretical and Empirical Integration in Diagnosis and Assessment
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Author: Steven K. Huprich
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 1433818450
ISBN 13: 978-1433818455
What are personality disorders? How should they be conceptualized, and how should they be assessed and diagnosed in clinical practice? For over a century these questions have been at the heart of psychological science. Yet even today, as the recent controversy over proposed changes to the classification of personality disorders in DSM-5 attests, there is hardly consensus on the answers.
This groundbreaking text offers a comprehensive and provocative tour of a field that is ripe for integration. Contributors who rank among the world’s most prestigious clinical and personality psychologists guide readers through the state of our knowledge of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians. They address the advantages and disadvantages of categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing personality pathology used in the standard diagnostic manuals, as well as the “hybrid” model described in Section III of DSM-5. Recent advances in statistical, methodological, and biogenetic research strategies are applied to the study of personality disorders, with a focus on clinical and empirical approaches to assessment and diagnosis. Theorists describe how psychodynamic, attachment, interpersonal, evolutionary, and cognitive processing approaches offer surprisingly similar models of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders.
Review
“A critically important addition to professional and academic library collections.” – Midwest Book Review
“A state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of PDs…an important book and a milestone.” - PsycCRITIQUES
Book Description
What are personality disorders? How should they be conceptualized, and how should they be assessed and diagnosed in clinical practice? For over a century these questions have been at the heart of psychological science. Yet even today, as the recent controversy over proposed changes to the classification of personality disorders in DSM-5 attests, there is hardly consensus on the answers.
This groundbreaking text offers a comprehensive and provocative tour of a field that is ripe for integration. Contributors who rank among the world’s most prestigious clinical and personality psychologists guide readers through the state of our knowledge of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians. They address the advantages and disadvantages of categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing personality pathology used in the standard diagnostic manuals, as well as the “hybrid” model described in Section III of DSM-5. Recent advances in statistical, methodological, and biogenetic research strategies are applied to the study of personality disorders, with a focus on clinical and empirical approaches to assessment and diagnosis. Theorists describe how psychodynamic, attachment, interpersonal, evolutionary, and cognitive processing approaches offer surprisingly similar models of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders.
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What are personality disorders? How should they be conceptualized, and how should they be assessed and diagnosed in clinical practice? For over a century these questions have been at the heart of psychological science. Yet even today, as the recent controversy over proposed changes to the classification of personality disorders in DSM-5 attests, there is hardly consensus on the answers.
This groundbreaking text offers a comprehensive and provocative tour of a field that is ripe for integration. Contributors who rank among the world's most prestigious clinical and personality psychologists guide readers through the state of our knowledge of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians. They address the advantages and disadvantages of categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing personality pathology used in the standard diagnostic manuals, as well as the "hybrid" model described in Section III of DSM-5. Recent advances in statistical, methodological, and biogenetic research strategies are applied to the study of personality disorders, with a focus on clinical and empirical approaches to assessment and diagnosis. Theorists describe how psychodynamic, attachment, interpersonal, evolutionary, and cognitive processing approaches offer surprisingly similar models of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders.
About the Author
Steven K. Huprich, PhD, is a professor and director of clinical training at Wichita State University. He is the editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and the 2013 recipient of the Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology.
Dr. Huprich also serves as the secretary/treasurer for the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. He has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications and chapters and more than 200 presentations, as well as five other books. His work includes a book on the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test to assess personality disorders, a general textbook on clinical psychology, an edited text on integrating personality assessment with DSM–5, important concepts for new therapists in treating narcissistic personalities, and a text on the conceptual and empirical foundations of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Dr. Huprich has also published on the assessment of interpersonal dependency and relational influences on the assessment of borderline personality disorder. He also has written about and presented on ways in which to integrate the manner by which personality disorders are conceptualized and assessed.
