This widely used practitioner resource and training tool is the definitive work on understanding and treating personality disorders from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) perspective. The prominent editors and contributors explain the nature of personality disorders and why they are so challenging to treat. Chapters addressing 12 specific disorders are organized around vivid, instructive clinical examples. The book provides up-to-date scientific knowledge about each disorder and describes effective strategies for differential diagnosis, case conceptualization, implementing individualized CBT interventions, and overcoming roadblocks.

New to This Edition
*Incorporates cutting-edge clinical approaches and research; expands the cognitive theory of personality disorder.
*Chapters on neural mechanisms, cultural diversity issues, and depressive personality disorder.
*Chapters on co-occurring disorders and management of clinical challenges.
*Disorder-specific chapters now include sections on key treatment goals, progress and termination, and clinician self-care.
*Discusses DSM-5 concepts and diagnostic criteria.
*Reviews advances in assessing personality beliefs.

Aaron T. Beck, MD, is University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, President Emeritus of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and the founder of cognitive therapy. Dr. Beck is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, the American Psychological Association (APA) Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Service Award, the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Research in Neuropsychiatry, and the Institute of Medicine's Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health and Gustav O. Lienhard Award. He has worked extensively with personality disorders and has been an investigator on two studies using cognitive therapy with borderline personality disorder.

Denise D. Davis, PhD, is Assistant Director of Clinical Training in Psychology at Vanderbilt University. She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) and a Fellow of the APA, and is certified by the ACT as a trainer, speaker and consultant for cognitive therapy. Dr. Davis was the founding Associate Editor of the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Practice prior to serving the first full term as that journal’s Editor. Her research and clinical interests include ethics, psychotherapy termination, and cognitive therapy of personality disorders.

Arthur Freeman, EdD, ABPP, is Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Midwestern University, where he is Executive Director of the Clinical Psychology Programs at both the Downers Grove, Illinois, and Glendale, Arizona, campuses. He is a past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy and a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the ACT. With over 100 chapters and articles, his work has been translated into 20 languages and he has lectured in 45 countries. Dr. Freeman's research and clinical interests include marital and family therapy, and cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression, anxiety, and personality disorders.

I. Theory, Research and Clinical Methods
1. Overview of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Personality Disorders, Daniel O. David & Arthur Freeman
2. Theory of Personality Disorders, Aaron T. Beck
3. Assessment of Personality Pathology, Jay C. Fournier
4. Neural Mechanisms of Maladaptive Schemas and Modes in Personality Disorders, Michael T. Treadway
5. General Principles and Specialized Techniques in Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Aaron T. Beck, Arthur Freeman, & Denise D. Davis
6. The Therapeutic Alliance with Patients with Personality Disorders, Denise D. Davis & Judith S. Beck
7. Diversity, Culture, and Personality Disorders, James L. Rebeta
II. Clinical Applications
8. Dependent Personality Disorder, Lindsay Brauer & Mark A. Reinecke
9. Avoidant Personality Disorder, Christine A. Padesky & Judith S. Beck
10. Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder, Karen M. Simon
11. Depressive Personality Disorder, David A. Clark & Catherine A. Hilchey
12. Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders, Julia C. Renton & Pawel D. Mankiewicz
13. Passive–Aggressive Personality Disorder (Negativistic Personality Disorder), Gina M. Fusco
14. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Wendy T. Behary & Denise D. Davis
15. Histrionic Personality Disorder, Mehmet Z. Sungur & Anil Gündüz
16. Antisocial Personality Disorder, Damon Mitchell, Raymond Chip Tafrate, & Arthur Freeman
17. Borderline Personality Disorder, Arnoud Arntz
III. Comorbidity and Clinical Management
18. Symptomatic Comorbidity, Robert A. DiTomasso & Bradley Rosenfield
19. Clinical Management: Working with Those Diagnosed with Personality Disorders, Gina M. Fusco
20. Synthesis and Prospects for the Future, Denise D. Davis & Arthur Freeman
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