Psychiatry
Personality Disorders
Author:
Maj, Editor: Mario
Isbn 13:
9780470090367
ISBN: 0470090367
Pub Date:
Apr 30, 2005
Publisher:
Wiley
Shipping Weight: 1.94 pounds
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'Personality Disorders' is a general term for a group of behavioural disorders characterised by usually lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle, and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms. This book aims to review recent progress and current controversies in this area, providing a guide to clinicians and a contribution to the ongoing revision of the two main diagnostic systems, the DSM-IV and ICD-10. Personality Disorders provides: * *Integration of scientific evidence and clinical practice which are often not considered together *Coverage of neuroscientific and psychiatric aspects *The unique series format of review chapters followed by commentaries Personality Disorders is the eighth volume in the WPA Series 'Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry. The book is an unbiased and reliable reference point for all psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses and policy makers.
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