Personality Disorder
the definitive reader
$126.73
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2008
Summary
Understanding and Managing Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide for Professionals
Personality Disorder offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.
This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address the impact that working with personality disorder patients can have on staff. It also offers theoretical explan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781843106401 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184310640X |
| Series: | Forensic Focus |
| Author: | Caroline Jacob, Robert Hinshelwood, Dr Gwen Adshead, Kingsley Norton |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Imprint: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 154mm x 22mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘This book is excellent value for anyone who has had difficulty working with clients who have personality disorder - but then isn’t that just about everyone?’
`This book is excellent value for anyone who has had difficulty working with clients who have personality disorder - but then isn’t that just about everyone?’ – The British Journal of Psychiatry, George Stein, The Priory HospitalThis book does exactly what its title promises… Here we have a valuable starting point for those whose everyday work involves dealing with personality disorder…Practical and thought-provoking. – The PsychologistThe volume is an especially accessible and useful resource, unravelling some of the many complexities associated with the disorder whilst encouraging a broader, yet deeper, understanding in mental health professionals. – British Journal of Social WorkThis is an invaluable colection. – Therapy Today
About The Author
Caroline Jacob
Gwen Adshead, MBBS,MA,FRCPsych is a consultant forensic psychiatrist, forensic psychotherapist, forensic researcher and psychiatrist specialising in trauma.
Caroline Jacob, MBChB, MSc, MRCPsych is in her third year as a specialist registrar, training in forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. She is currently based with psychotherapy and forensic services in Bristol but also works at Broadmoor hospital on a sessional basis.
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