Joel Paris (Montreal McGill University)

Social Factors in the Personality Disorders

Finding a Niche

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Produktbeschreibung

Synthesizing the very latest research, this book focuses on the social context of personality disorders. It considers how personality traits and disorders interact with social demands and opportunities, and offers a broad biopsychosocial perspective that will greatly assist mental health professionals with understanding and treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 123mm x 185mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 60g
• ISBN-13: 9781108811637
• ISBN-10: 1108811639
• Artikelnr.: 59917224

Autorenporträt

Joel Paris, McGill University, Quebec Joel Paris is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. He heads personality disorder clinics at two hospitals, is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, and has published over 20 books.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. General Principles: 1. Personality disorders: The history of an idea
2. Personality traits and personality disorders
Part II. Social Mechanisms: 3. Social content and personality
4. Modernity and personality disorder
Part III. Specific Patterns of Disorder: 5. The borderline pattern
6. The problem of narcissism
7. Antisocial personality disorder
8. Other personality disorders
Part IV. Models and Clinical Applications: 9. A biopsychosocial model of personality disorder
10. Finding a niche.