Treatability in severe personality disorders / Michael H. Stone -- The treatment of choice / John F. Clarkin -- Countertransference / Otto F. Kernberg -- Beyond management to cure / C. Robert Cloninger -- Personality disorders from the perspective of child and adolescent psychiatry / Arnold Allertz and Guus van Voorst -- Disruptions in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis / Salman Akhtar -- Managing suicidal crises in patients with severe personality disorders / Joel Paris -- Borderline personality disorder, day hospitals, and mentalization / Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy -- Pharmacotherapy of severe personality disorders / Thomas Rinne and Theo Ingenhoven -- Severe cases / Bert van Luyn -- Dangerous cases / J. Reid Meloy and James A. Reavis -- Stalking of therapists / Paul E. Mullen and Rosemary Percell -- Common elements of effective treatments / W. John Livesley
Summary
This book is about understanding and managing patients with these challenging disorders