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Clinical Assessment and Management of Severe Personality Disorders

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Understanding and recognizing personality disorders. Diagnosing specific personality disorders and the optimal criteria. Use of psychological tests in the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders. Neuropsychiatric issues in the management of personality disorders. Comprehending comorbidity: a symptom disorder plus a personality disorder. Rational pharmacotherapy for patients with personality disorders. The script is already written: system responses to patients with personality disorders. The therapeutic relationship. Understanding patients with histories of childhood sexual abuse. Helping the family: a framework for intervention. Index.

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Key concepts: Personality disorders, Personality, Biosocial theory, Clinical psychology, Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders, Sadistic personality disorder, Psychology, Intervention (counseling)