文档介绍：Severe Personality Disorders
This book is about understanding and managing patients with severe personality disorders. It
covers biological, psychoanalytic and cognitive behavioral approaches and provides a pragmatic
guide to best practice, based on the published evidence, where this is available.
As well as discussing issues of severity, treatability and the range of appropriate management
options, the content explores mon elements of effective interventions and covers early
prediction, countertransference, disruptions of the therapeutic alliance, suicidal crises and what
to do when dealing with dangerous, refractory and stalking patients.
The chapters are authored by an international cast of distinguished investigators and
innovators from the field.
This is a holistic, practical guide to the treatment of patients with a range of these disorders
and it should be read by all the members of the mental health team dealing with this
challenging clinical group.
Bert van Luyn is Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Head of Transmural Services for Longterm
Psychiatric Disorders, Symfora Groep, herlands.
Salman Akhtar is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Supervising and
Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USA.
W. John Livesley is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British
Columbia, Canada.
Severe Personality
Disorders
Edited by
Bert van Luyn
Symfora groep, Amersfoort
Salman Akhtar
Department of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia
W. John Livesley
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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