Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader (forensic Focus)
by Kingsley Norton /
2008 / English / PDF
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Personality Disorder offers a comprehensive and accessible
collection of papers that will be practically useful to
practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with
patients who have personality disorders.
Personality Disorder offers a comprehensive and accessible
collection of papers that will be practically useful to
practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with
patients who have personality disorders.
This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address
the impact that working with personality disorder patients can
have on staff. It also offers theoretical explanations for
personality disorder, and explores other issues such as the
concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff as
attachment figures and the relationship between severity of
personality disorder and childhood experiences. Each paper is
introduced with contextual material, and is followed by a series
of questions that are intended to be used as educational
exercises.
This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address
the impact that working with personality disorder patients can
have on staff. It also offers theoretical explanations for
personality disorder, and explores other issues such as the
concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff as
attachment figures and the relationship between severity of
personality disorder and childhood experiences. Each paper is
introduced with contextual material, and is followed by a series
of questions that are intended to be used as educational
exercises.
This book will be essential reading for clinical and forensic
psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses,
social workers and students.
This book will be essential reading for clinical and forensic
psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses,
social workers and students.