Personality Disorders Toward Theoretical and Empirical Integration in Diagnosis and Assessment

by Huprich, Steven K.

• ISBN13: 9781433818455
• ISBN10: 1433818450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-01-19
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive examination of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians.

What are personality disorders? How should they be conceptualized, and how should they be assessed and diagnosed in clinical practice? For over a century these questions have been at the heart of psychological science. Yet even today, as the recent controversy over proposed changes to the classification of personality disorders in DSM-5 attests, there is hardly consensus on the answers.

Personality Disorders offers a comprehensive and provocative tour of a field that is ripe for integration. Contributors who rank among the world’s most prestigious clinical and personality psychologists guide readers through the state of our knowledge of personality disorders, from conceptual and theoretical concerns to the practical problems faced by assessing clinicians. They address the advantages and disadvantages of categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing personality pathology used in the standard diagnostic manuals, as well as the “hybrid” model described in Section III of DSM-5. Recent advances in statistical, methodological, and biogenetic research strategies are applied to the study of personality disorders, with a focus on clinical and empirical approaches to assessment and diagnosis. Theorists describe how psychodynamic, attachment, interpersonal, evolutionary, and cognitive processing approaches offer surprisingly similar models of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders.

Author Biography

Steven K. Huprich, PhD, is a professor and director of clinical training at Wichita State University. He is the editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and the 2013 recipient of the Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology. Dr. Huprich also serves as the secretary/treasurer for the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. He has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications and chapters and more than 200 presentations, as well as five other books. His work includes a book on the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test to assess personality disorders, a general textbook on clinical psychology, an edited text on integrating personality assessment with DSM–5, important concepts for new therapists in treating narcissistic personalities, and a text on the conceptual and empirical foundations of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Huprich has also published on the assessment of interpersonal dependency and relational influences on the assessment of borderline personality disorder. He also has written about and presented on ways in which to integrate the manner by which personality disorders are conceptualized and assessed.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction: Personality Disorders Into the 21st Century
Steven K. Huprich

I. Current Issues in the Diagnosis and Assessment of Personality Disorders

1. The Value of Retaining Personality Disorder Diagnoses
   Kenneth R. Silk
2. A Critical Evaluation of Retaining Personality Categories and Types
   Douglas B. Samuel and Sarah A. Griffin
3. The Role of Traits in Describing, Assessing, and Understanding Personality Pathology
   Kristian E. Markon and Katherine G. Jonas
4. A Critical Evaluation of Moving Toward a Trait System for Personality Disorder Assessment
   Kevin B. Meehan and John F. Clarkin

II. Research and Assessment Strategies

1. At the Nexus of Science and Practice: Answering Basic Clinical Questions in Personality Disorder Assessment and Diagnosis With Quantitative Modeling Techniques
   Aidan G. C. Wright and Johannes Zimmermann
2. Lessons Learned From Longitudinal Studies of Personality Disorders
   Alex S. Keuroghlian and Mary C. Zanarini
3. Biological Bases of Personality Disorders
   Susan C. South
4. Object Relations Theories and Personality Disorders: Internal Representations and Defense Mechanisms
   Caleb Siefert and Jonathan H. Porcerelli
5. Integrating Clinical and Empirical Perspectives on Personality: The Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)
   Jonathan Shedler
6. Assessing Explicit and Implicit Processes in Personality Pathology
   Irving B. Weiner
7. Process-Focused Assessment of Personality Pathology
   Robert F. Bornstein

III. Moving Toward Integrated and Unified Models of Personality Disorders and Pathology

1. An Integrative, Psychodynamic Framework of Personality Pathology
   Patrick Luyten and Sidney J. Blatt
2. An Integrative Attachment Theory Framework of Personality Disorders
   Kenneth N. Levy, J. Wesley Scala, Christina M. Temes, and Tracy L. Clouthier
3. An Integrative Interpersonal Framework for Understanding Personality Pathology
   Nicole M. Cain and Emily B. Ansell
4. An Integrating and Comprehensive Model of Personality Pathology Based on Evolutionary Theory
   Theodore Millon and Stephen Strack
5. The Cognitive–Affective Processing System Model of Personality Pathology: Ready-Made for Theoretical Integration
   Steven K. Huprich and Sharon M. Nelson
6. The Link Between Personality Theory and Psychological Treatment: A Shifting Terrain
   John F. Clarkin, Nicole M. Cain, and W. John Livesley

Index

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