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  3. Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2010
Print publication year:
1996
Online ISBN:
9780511722165
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511722165
Subjects:
Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry
Series:
Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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Book description

Personality disorders have been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need to be better defined. This book interprets the personality disorders as products of the interaction between social influences and other aetiological factors as part of a broad biopsychosocial model, and explains how personality traits develop into personality disorders. Strongly oriented towards recent empirical findings, the author argues that although biological, psychological and social factors are all necessary, none of them is by itself sufficient to produce a personality disorder. This basic model is also a model of treatment, in which biological, experiential and social factors should all be addressed in therapy and his treatment recommendations focus particularly on social adjustment through the adaptive use of personality traits.

Reviews

‘The strength of Professor Paris’s book is its eclecticism. It pulls together psychological, biological, and social theory to produce a biopsychosocial model for the aetiology of personality disorders.’

Kwame McKenzie Source: British Medical Journal

‘… a concise and comprehensive overview of the key issues … The author succeeds in presenting a contentious subject in an authoritative and fascinating manner’.

Source: British Journal of Psychiatry

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