Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Third Edition

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.

Table of Contents:

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