Personality-Disordered Patients: Treatable and Untreatable

by Michael H. Stone

Determining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy--a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment--is important in helping clinicians determine the treatability of cases. Michael Stone here shares the factors he has observed over long years of practice that can help practitioners evaluate patients, stressing the amenability of the various disorders to amelioration. By focusing on which patients are likely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585621722
• ISBN13: 9781585621729
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher