Disordered Personalities, 3rd ed.
By David J. Robinson, MD

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Dr. Robinson helps students learn the basics and gives instructors helpful ideas for presenting material on personality disorders.

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Field Guide to Personality Disorders, 2nd ed.
By David J. Robinson, MD

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This companion to Disordered Personalities provides a wealth of clinical information that helps readers understand personality disorders.

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Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: An Integrative Personality-Based Treatment for Complex Cases
By Lorna Smith Benjamin

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Patients with personality disorders and other chronic, comorbid mental disorders face significant barriers to change. This book describes a therapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other techniques to help patients foster change in personality.

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Personality Disorders and Older Adults
By Daniel L. Segal, PhD, Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, and Erlene Rosowsky, PsyD

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This book examines the potential impact of aging on personality disorders and offers extended case examples for an array of personality disorders that affect older adults.

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Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
By Joel Paris, MD

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Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range of therapies and identifies the core ingredients of effective intervention. He offers specific guidance for meeting the needs of this challenging population, including ways to improve diagnosis, promote emotion regulation and impulse control, maintain appropriate therapeutic boundaries, and deal with suicidality and other crises.

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