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- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chemical and Behavioral Addictions
- Chapter 2 Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents
- Chapter 3 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics
- Chapter 4 Recent Developments in Cultural Psychiatry
- Chapter 5 New Perspectives in Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Emergency Psychiatry
- Chapter 7 How Can Forensic Psychiatry Contribute to Legal and Ethical Controversies in Society?
- Chapter 8 Diagnosis of Co-occurrent Mental Health Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disability, Major Communication and Insight Difficulties, and Stressor-Related Disorders
- Chapter 9 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults
- Chapter 10 Translational Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Challenges in the Therapy of Psychiatric Disorders in the Elderly
- Chapter 12 Position-Taking
- Chapter 13 Physical Health of Patients with Schizophrenia
- Chapter 14 Evolving Concepts for the Assessment and Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Chapter 15 The Role of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants in Suicidal Crisis Management
- Chapter 16 Telemental Health Care
- Chapter 17 Development and Current Status of ICD-11 Mental, Behavioral, or Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Chapter 18 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 19 Did We Lose Interest and Pleasure in the Concept of Major Depression?
- Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
- Index
- References
Chapter 20 - Personality Disorders
Diagnosis, Assessment, and Intervention Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chemical and Behavioral Addictions
- Chapter 2 Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents
- Chapter 3 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics
- Chapter 4 Recent Developments in Cultural Psychiatry
- Chapter 5 New Perspectives in Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Emergency Psychiatry
- Chapter 7 How Can Forensic Psychiatry Contribute to Legal and Ethical Controversies in Society?
- Chapter 8 Diagnosis of Co-occurrent Mental Health Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disability, Major Communication and Insight Difficulties, and Stressor-Related Disorders
- Chapter 9 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults
- Chapter 10 Translational Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Challenges in the Therapy of Psychiatric Disorders in the Elderly
- Chapter 12 Position-Taking
- Chapter 13 Physical Health of Patients with Schizophrenia
- Chapter 14 Evolving Concepts for the Assessment and Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Chapter 15 The Role of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants in Suicidal Crisis Management
- Chapter 16 Telemental Health Care
- Chapter 17 Development and Current Status of ICD-11 Mental, Behavioral, or Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Chapter 18 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 19 Did We Lose Interest and Pleasure in the Concept of Major Depression?
- Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
- Index
- References
Summary
Personality disorders (PDs) are characterized by significant impairments to the self and interpersonal functioning, alongside pathological personality traits. One in ten people in the general population and one in two in clinical settings meet the diagnostic criteria for a PD. Comorbidity with other mental disorders is common, and the presence of a PD is the strongest explanation for recurrence, relapse, and poor prognosis in mental disorders. However, many individuals with a PD remain undetected in clinical practice and, as a result, are given ineffective or even harmful treatment. The ICD-11 classification of PDs represents a paradigm shift, replacing all PD subcategories with a single general description and differentiating individual PD expressions according to severity and personality trait domains. This classification is aligned with the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, though the latter is not intended for general use. In addition to discussing the aforementioned issues, this chapter reviews the clinical descriptions of and empirical evidence for PDs (discussing them individually, in line with the DSM-5 classification) and presents meta-analytic data on the effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy for PDs.
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- Mental Health Research and PracticeFrom Evidence to Experience, pp. 355 - 392Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024