Family Treatment of Personality Disorders
Subtitle: Advances in Clinical Practice
Publisher: Haworth Press; Haworth Clinical Practice Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780789017901
Subjects: Psychology; Psychotherapy - Group; Treatment; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychotherapy - Couples & Family; Personality disorders; Family psychotherapy; Marital psychotherapy
First sentence: Since the inclusion of a separate Axis II category for personality disorders in the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (1980) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), interest has burgeoned in the field of personality disorders, resulting in an explosion of texts and journal articles regarding the etiology and treatment of personality disorders (Magnavita, 1998b).