Personality Disorders (eBook)

Mario Maj, University of Naples, Italy Hagop S. Asiskal, University of California, San Diego, USA Juan E. Mezzich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA Ahmed Okasha, Ain Shams University, Cario, Egypt

List of Review Contributors.

Preface

Chapter 1. Schizotypal, Schizoid and Paranoid Disorders

Cluster A Personality Disorders: A Review (Josef Parnas, Deborah
Licht and Pierre Bovet).

Chapter 2. Antisocial Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review (C. Robert
Cloninger).

Chapter 3. Histrionic and Borderline Disorder

Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review
(Michael H. Stone).

Chapter 4. Narcissistic Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review (Elsa
Ronningstam).

Chapter 5. The Anxious Cluster

The Anxious Cluster of Personality Disorders: A Review (Peter
Tyrer).

Chapter 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): A Review
(Paul T. Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin and Hillary
Norton).

Epilogue: The Renaissance of the Ancient Concept of Temperament
(with a Focus on Affective Temperaments) (Hagop S. Akiskal and
Kareen Akiskal).

Index.

"This well-ordered text by a world-wide collection of experts
provides an authoritative exploration of these common and
misunderstood conditions." (Electric Review,
November/December 2005)

"...clearly well researched and reasonably organized..."
(Doody's Health Services)