Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry)

Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry)

by PeterTyrer (Foreword), JoelParis (Author)

Synopsis

Personality disorders have been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need to be better defined. This book interprets the personality disorders as products of the interaction between social influences and other aetiological factors as part of a broad biopsychosocial model, and explains how personality traits develop into personality disorders. Strongly oriented towards recent empirical findings, the author argues that although biological, psychological and social factors are all necessary, none of them is by itself sufficient to produce a personality disorder. This basic model is also a model of treatment, in which biological, experiential and social factors should all be addressed in therapy and his treatment recommendations focus particularly on social adjustment through the adaptive use of personality traits.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 31 May 1996

ISBN 10: 0521472245
ISBN 13: 9780521472241
Book Overview: This book explains the personality disorders and their treatment in terms of a broad biopsychosocial model.

Media Reviews
'The strength of Professor Paris's book is its eclecticism. It pulls together psychological, biological, and social theory to produce a biopsychosocial model for the aetiology of personality disorders.' Kwame McKenzie, British Medical Journal
'... a concise and comprehensive overview of the key issues ... The author succeeds in presenting a contentious subject in an authoritative and fascinating manner'. British Journal of Psychiatry
This book does an excellent job of stressing the importance of social and psychological factors in personality disorder development and provides a refreshingly hopeful, yet realistic framework for the treatment of personality disorders in a concise manner. The information is presented in clear, simple language... Kelly E. Arduino, Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal