This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on personality disorder with chapters by philosophers, psychiatrists, and psychological scientists. Written to be accessible to all three disciplines, it updates traditional conceptualizations and offers new and novel perspectives on personality disorder, with a special emphasis on borderline and narcissistic personalities. Featuring contributions from established senior researchers as well as early career scholars from across four continents, it offers surveys of contemporary research and clinical expertise that together plumb the foundational understandings of personality disorder.
This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on personality disorder with chapters by philosophers, psychological scientists, and psychiatrists. Written to be accessible to all three disciplines, it updates traditional conceptualizations and offers new and novel perspectives with a special emphasis on borderline and narcissistic personalities.
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'Banicki and Zachar have assembled the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of original works about personality disorders that has ever been published. Their book encompasses multiple theoretical perspectives on these conditions as well as deeply researched empirical studies. Conceptualizing Personality Disorder is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the various personality disorders.' Allan V. Horwitz, Distinguished Board of Governors Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Rutgers University
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An interdisciplinary exploration of personality disorder with chapters by philosophers, psychological scientists, and psychiatrists.
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction:
personality disorder and the philosophy of psychopathology Peter Zachar and
Konrad Banicki; Part I. Historical Perspectives:
1. How personality disorder
became an independent domain in psychopathology: a history Peter Zachar;
2.
Ribot's novel approach to character pathology: from normal indecisiveness to
the madness of doubt Jeanne Proust;
3. What can the dimensional model of
personality disorders learn from Mischel's classical challenge to the trait
theory of personality? Eisuke Sakakibara; Part II. Contemporary Approaches to
Traditional Conceptual Perspectives:
4. The psychodynamic core of personality
disorder: contemporary concepts and methods Mark Waugh;
5. Multiple roads to
pathology: a complex systems perspective on personality disorders Angélique
O. J. Cramer and Denny Borsboom;
6. A contemporary integrative interpersonal
theory formulation of borderline and narcissistic pathology Aidan G. C.
Wright and Sienna R. Nielsen;
7. The inflexible self and lived time: a
phenomenological approach to personality disorders Anna Sterna, Marcin
Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt and Thomas Fuchs;
8. Psychopharmacology and
personality disorder: treatment or enhancement? Stefan Jerotic and Milutin
Kostic;
9. When do personality traits become pathological? An epistemological
and evolutionary view Simone Cheli and Martin Brüne; Part III. Novel
Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder:
10. What does personality have
to do with mental disorder? A cybernetic perspective Colin G. DeYoung and
Robert F. Krueger;
11. Self-illness ambiguity in personality disorders: Is it
me or my disorder (that makes me do X)? Roy Dings, Nina de Boer, Léon de
Bruin and Gerrit Glas;
12. On personality dimensions and disorders: is a
trait-based approach really the answer? Simon Boag;
13. A dual aspect
approach to personality disorder: locating the normal in the abnormal Huw
Green;
14. Network architectures of personality and its pathology Annemarie
C. J. Köhne and Adela-Maria Isvoranu;
15. From Paul Tillich's The Courage to
Be to radical acceptance and radical openness: or spiritually-based
dialectical approaches to neurotic character Konrad Banicki;
16. Personality
'disorder' and the incapacity to self-regulate: answering practical and
metaphysical questions Garson Leder and Tadeusz Zawidzki; Part IV. Exploring
Negative Consequences of Diagnosing Personality Disorder:
17. Aversive and
antagonistic personality disorder: a post-colonial analysis Grant Gillett and
Armon J. Tamatea;
18. Right to be angry: affective injustice and borderline
personality disorder Astrid Fly Oredsson and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Part
V. Perspectives on Borderline and Narcissistic Personality:
19. How and why
emptiness manifests in everyday life: borderline personality disorder and
beyond Nancy Nyquist Potter;
20. Empathy deficits in the development and
maintenance of narcissistic personality disorder Thomas Schramme;
21.
Interaffectivity disturbances in narcissistic personality disorder Susi
Ferrarello;
22. Narrative accounts of the self: differentiating narcissistic
from non-narcissistic personalities Louise Williams.
Konrad Banicki is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is a philosopher, psychologist, and cognitive-behavioral therapist as well as a convenor of the Understanding Personality Disorders network associated with St Catherine's College Oxford. Peter Zachar is Professor of Psychology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He Is the author of two previous books, Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (2000) and A Metaphysics of Psychopathology (2014), and has served as editor or co-editor of seven additional volumes.
