Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment
Joel Paris - Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment
Published: 2006-11-23 | ISBN: 0521032660, 0521472245 | PDF | 256 pages | 5 MB
This book interprets the personality disorders in terms 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 personality disorder. This basic model is also a model of treatment. Illustrated with revealing case vignettes, this balanced, humane and rational account will greatly assist clinicians in the understanding and treatment of individuals with personality disorder.