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Personality disorder : temperament or trauma? / Heather Castillo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castillo, Heather.
- Series:
- Forensic focus ; 23.
- Forensic focus ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personality disorders.
- Psychic trauma.
- Temperament.
- Physical Description:
- 176 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Personality Disorder is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, the author seeks to adjust this imbalance and looks at the classification and treatment of personality disorder from the service users' viewpoint.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Dreaming of a Better Way
- 2 A Historical Perspective
- 3 The Disliked Patient
- 4 Personality Development
- 5 Complex Post Traumatic Syndrome
- 6 Treatability
- 7 Is Suffering an Illness?
- 8 Getting Our Act Together
- 9 The Task
- 10 Demographics and Themes
- 11 What Personality Disorder Means to Us
- 12 Experiences
- 13 The Moral Career of the Client
- 14 The Diagnostic Straightjacket
- 15 Spreading the Word
- 16 New Beginnings
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283904148
- 1283904144
- 9781846423772
- 1846423775
- OCLC:
- 52966944
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