Personality Disorders

by Ahmed Okasha, Juan E. Mezzich, Hagop S. Akiskal

This 8th volume of the WPA series in Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry provides an update of research evidence and clinical experience concerning personality disorders. A general term for a group of behavioural disorders, personality disorders are usually characterised by lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms. The book reviews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470090367
• ISBN13: 9780470090367
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 515 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"