Personality Disorders
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Beschreibung
This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence andExperience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidenceand clinical experience concerning personality disorders.
A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personalitydisorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained,maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle and socialadjustment that are different in quality from psychotic andneurotic symptoms. The book reviews recent progress andcurrent controversies in this area, providing a guide to cliniciansand a contribution to the ongoing revision of the two maindiagnostic systems, the DSM-IV and ICD-10.
Written by Mario Maj, an internationally renowned psychiatristand secretary for publications of the World PsychiatricAssociation, this work includes coverage of neuroscientific andpsychiatric aspects and is an unbiased and reliable referencepoint.
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"This well-ordered text by a world-wide collection of expertsprovides an authoritative exploration of these common andmisunderstood conditions." (Electric Review,November/December 2005)
"...clearly well researched and reasonably organized..."(Doody's Health Services)
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