Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders Second Edition

This groundbreaking volume presents a unifying theory of personality pathology together with vital insights on diagnosing and treating each of the DSM-IV personality disorders.

This influential work helps clinicians resolve questions of overlap among diagnostic categories, offers specific and sensible suggestions for treatment interventions, and describes common transference problems in therapy.

I. Basic Concepts1. Introduction and Overview2. History and Assumptions of the Approach3. The Harmonics of Therapy4. The Interviewing and Treatment MethodsII. DSM Cluster B, the Dramatic, Erratic Group5. Borderline Personality Disorder6. Narcissistic Personality Disorder7. Histrionic Personality Disorder8. Antisocial Personality DisorderIII. DSM Cluster C, the Anxious, Fearful Group9. Dependent Personality Disorder10. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder11. Negativistic Personality (Disorder): Personality Disorder, NOS12. Avoidant Personality DisorderIV. DSM Cluster A, the Odd, Eccentric Group13. Paranoid Personality Disorder14. Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality DisordersV. Divergences15. Category Overlap, Residual Categories, and Other IssuesAppendix: Summary of Diagnostic and DifferentialIndicators

Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Utah and Founder of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). She has a small private practice, serves as a consultant at UNI, and gives workshops on psychotherapy with difficult cases.