Sect. 1. Etiology, Theory, Psychopathology, and Assessment
1. Classification, Prevalence, and Etiology of Personality Disorders: Related Issues and Controversy / Jeffrey J. Magnavita
2. Psychopathologic Assessment Can Usefully Inform Therapy: A View from the Study of Personality / Theodore Millon and Seth D. Grossman
3. Relevance of Theory in Treating Personality Dysfunction / Jeffrey J. Magnavita
4. Assessing the Dimensions of Personality Disorder / Philip Erdberg
5. Borderline Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Organization: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy / Otto F. Kernberg
6. Personality Disorder or Relational Disconnection? / Judith V. Jordan
7. Sociocultural Factors in the Treatment of Personality Disorders / Joel Paris
Sect. 2. Contemporary Psychotherapeutic Treatment Models
8. Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT) for Individuals with Personality Disorder / Lorna Smith Benjamin
9. Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders / James Pretzer
10. Treatment of Personality Adaptations Using Redecision Therapy / Vann S. Joines
11. Dialectical Behavior Therapy of Severe Personality Disorders / Clive J. Robins and Cedar R. Koons
12. Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy / Hanna Levenson
13. Close Process Attention in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy / Frank Knoblauch
14. Application of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to Personality Disorders / Philip Manfield and Francine Shapiro
Sect. 3. Broadening the Scope of Treatment: Special Populations and Settings
15. Pharmacotherapy of Personality Disorders / Robert Grossman
16. Day Treatment of Personality Disorders / John S. Ogrodniczuk and William E. Piper
17. Residential Treatment of Personality Disorders: The Containing Function / Barri Belnap, Cuneyt Iscan and Eric M. Plakun
18. Treatment of Personality Disorders with Co-occuring Substance Dependence: Dual Focus Schema Therapy / Samuel A. Ball
19. Personality-Guided Therapy for Treating Medical Patients / Ellen A. Dornelas
20. Role of Trauma, Memory, Neurobiology, and the Self in the Formation of Personality Disorders / Mark R. Elin
Sect. 4. Expanding the Range of Treatment: Child, Adolescent, and Elderly Models
21. Treatment of Dramatic Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents / Efrain Bleiberg
22. Treatment of Personality Disorders in Older Adults: A Community Mental Health Model / Rosemary Snapp Kean, Kathleen M. Hoey and Stephen L. Pinals
Sect. 5. Research Findings and Future Challenges
23. Empirical Research on the Treatment of Personality Disorders / Paul Crits-Christoph and Jacques P. Barber
24. Toward a Unified Model of Treatment for Personality Dysfunction / Jeffrey J. Magnavita.
