| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
History of personality and its disorders -- Assessment of personality : from normal to disorder -- Personality difficulty -- Borderline personality disorder : a condition that appeared without trace -- Cultural perspectives : epidemiology of personality disorders -- Personality and health -- Personality disorders and comorbidity with other mental illness -- Treatment and outcome of personality disorder -- Moderating the stigma of personality disorder -- What needs to be done now |
| Summary |
"Chapter 1 History of Personality and Its Disorders Historical chapters in scientific books are generally dull even though they do not intend to be. There is an understandable need to record what has happened in the past even though it may be quite irrelevant to what is going on today. We are frequently asked to remember George Santayana's comment, made by many others, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (Santayana, 1905). But this is hardly relevant for a textbook on The Wheel. Those who concentrate on wheel technology are not going to be particularly interested, except in a voyeuristic sense, of how Druids might have been able to move large blocks of stone to Stonehenge for hundreds of miles using primitive garden rollers. But with personality disorder it is different. Without some knowledge of the history of personality disorder current descriptions cannot be placed in any sort of context"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Personality disorders.
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Personality Disorders
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Personality disorders
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mulder, Roger, author.
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Royal College of Psychiatrists, issuing body.
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| LC no. |
2021030313 |
| ISBN |
9781108951685 |
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1108951686 |
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