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Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
Gwen (Ed) Adshead
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Description for Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
Paperback. This book addresses the impact that working with personality disorder patients can have on staff. It offers theoretical explanations for personality disorder, explores other issues such as the concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff and the relationship between severity of personality disorder and childhood experiences. Editor(s): Adshead, Gwen; Jacob, Caroline. Series: Forensic Focus. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: MMH; MMJ; MQCL5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Forensic Focus
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843106401
SKU
V9781843106401
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About Gwen (Ed) Adshead
Gwen Adshead, MBBS,MA,FRCPsych is a consultant forensic psychiatrist, forensic psychotherapist, forensic researcher and psychiatrist specialising in trauma. Caroline Jacob, MBChB, MSc, MRCPsych is in her third year as a specialist registrar, training in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. She is currently based with psychotherapy and forensic services in Bristol but also works at Broadmoor hospital on a sessional basis.
Reviews for Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
`This book is excellent value for anyone who has had difficulty working with clients who have personality disorder - but then isn't that just about everyone?'
The British Journal of Psychiatry, George Stein, The Priory Hospital This book does exactly what its title promises... Here we have a valuable starting point for those whose everyday work involves dealing with ... Read more
The British Journal of Psychiatry, George Stein, The Priory Hospital This book does exactly what its title promises... Here we have a valuable starting point for those whose everyday work involves dealing with ... Read more