Personality Disorders is an up-to-date, evidence-based, and accessibly written review to assist psychiatry residents, fellows, and practitioners in the understanding and treatment of patients with various personality styles and personality disorders. The work is divided into three sections,
which include clinical illustrations and wisdom from well-known expert clinicians. Section I provides an overview of the assessment of personality styles and disorders and a general clinical approach, including epidemiology, interviewing, and developing a categorical and trait diagnosis. Section II
describes the major evidence-based multi-clinical treatment approaches for personality disorders, such as general management, cognitive and behavioural therapies, dialectical behavioural therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapies, schema focused psychotherapy, mentalization-based treatment, and family
and group therapy. Section III covers the major specific personality disorders, their treatments, and management of relevant co-morbidities.
Each chapter offers key point summaries, provides useful resources for patients, and scholarly references for psychiatry trainees and clinicians. Chapters are written from a bio-psycho-social-cultural perspective using either a single theoretical approach or a multi-modal treatment approach. This
book is the most comprehensive guide to personality disorders to date, detailing a wide array of multi-theoretical and inclusive clinical treatment approaches.

Part I: Overview
Chapter 1: The Personality Syndromes
Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Chapter 2: Levels of Personality Organization: Theoretical Background and Clinical Applications
Eve Caligor, MD; John F. Clarkin, PhD; Julia F. Sowislo, PhD
Chapter 3: Pathways Between Psychological Trauma and the Development of Personality Disorders
Valerie Rosen, MD; Greg Fonzo, PhD; Emily Rosen, Alex Preston
Chapter 4: Integrating Clinical and Empirical Approaches to Personality The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)
Jonathan Shedler, PhD

Part II: Multi-theoretical Approaches to The Treating of Personality Disorders
Chapter 5: Crossing the Alphabet Divide: Navigating the Evidence for DBT, GPM, MBT, and TFP for BPD
Kenneth N. Levy, PhD; Benjamin N. Johnson, MS; Haruka Notsu, MS
Chapter 6: The Big 6: Evidence-Base Therapies for the Treatment of Personality Disorders
Robert E. Feinstein, MD
Chapter 7: Managing Patient with Personality Disorders in Medical Settings
Robert E. Feinstein, MD
Chapter 8: Transference-focused Psychotherapy
Christopher Green, MD; Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD
Chapter 9: Mentalization-based Treatment
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW; Jonathan T. Henry, MD, PhD
Chapter 10: Cognitive-behavioral Therapy
Matthew W. Southward, PhD; Stephen A. Semcho, MS; Shannon Sauer-Zavala, PhD
Chapter 11: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Sheila E. Crowell, PhD; Parisa R. Kaliush, MS; Robert D. Vlisides-Henry, MS; Nicolette Molina, BA
Chapter 12: Schema Therapy
Dr. Anja Schaich, MS; Dr. Eva Faßbinder, MD; Arnoud Arntz, PhD
Chapter 13: Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) for Borderline Personality Disorder
Robert G. Hersh, MD; Benjamin McCommon, MD; Emma Golkin, MD; Jennifer Sotsky, MD
Chapter 14: Employing Psychodynamic Process-oriented Group Psychotherapy with Personality Disorders
Kenneth M. Pollock, PhD, CGP; Robert E. Feinstein, MD
Chapter 15: Psychopharmacology of Personality Disorders
Tawny L. Smith, BCPP; Samantha Vogel, BCPP

Part III: Personality Disorders
Chapter 16: Paranoid Personalities (Vigilant Style)
Royce Lee, MD; Edwin Santos
Chapter 17: Some Thoughts About Schizoid Dynamics
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Chapter 18: Antisocial Personalities
Glen O. Gabbard, MD
Chapter 19: Borderline Personality Disorder
Curtis C. Bogetti, BS; Eric A. Fertuck, PhD
Chapter 20: Histrionic Personality Disorder
Michelle Magid, MD, MBA; Isadora Fox, DNP, MSN, RN, PMHNP, APRN-BC
Chapter 21: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Alyson A. Gorun, MD; Benjamin A. Scherban, PGY-4 Resident; Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, MD, PhD
Chapter 22: Avoidant personality Disorder
Lee Sperry, MD, PhD; Gerardo Casteleiro, PhD (cand.)
Chapter 23: Dependent Personality Disorder
Robert F. Bornstein; Adam P. Natoli, PhD
Chapter 24: Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder
Cynthia Playfair, MD
Chapter 25: Masochistic/Self-Defeating Personality Styles
Robert Alan Glick, MD; Brenda Berger, MD