Conceptualizing Personality Disorder
Conceptualizing Personality Disorder
Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychological Science, and Psychiatry
July 2025
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9781009445979
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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on personality disorder with chapters by philosophers, psychiatrists, and psychological scientists. Written to be accessible to all three disciplines, it updates traditional conceptualizations and offers new and novel perspectives on personality disorder, with a special emphasis on borderline and narcissistic personalities. Featuring contributions from established senior researchers as well as early career scholars from across four continents, it offers surveys of contemporary research and clinical expertise that together plumb the foundational understandings of personality disorder.
- Offers an interdisciplinary examination of personality disorder, spanning philosophy, psychological science, and psychiatry
- Includes both clinical perspectives on treatment and forward-thinking research perspectives
- Encompasses both categorical and dimensional models of psychopathology, providing a historical context for how they are related
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July 2025Hardback
9781009445979
420 pages
229 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from July 2025
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction: personality disorder and the philosophy of psychopathology Peter Zachar and Konrad Banicki
- Part I. Historical Perspectives:
- 1. How personality disorder became an independent domain in psychopathology: a history Peter Zachar
- 2. Ribot's novel approach to character pathology: from normal indecisiveness to the madness of doubt Jeanne Proust
- 3. What can the dimensional model of personality disorders learn from Mischel's classical challenge to the trait theory of personality? Eisuke Sakakibara
- Part II. Contemporary Approaches to Traditional Conceptual Perspectives:
- 4. The psychodynamic core of personality disorder: contemporary concepts and methods Mark Waugh
- 5. Multiple roads to pathology: a complex systems perspective on personality disorders Angélique O. J. Cramer and Denny Borsboom
- 6. A contemporary integrative interpersonal theory formulation of borderline and narcissistic pathology Aidan G. C. Wright and Sienna R. Nielsen
- 7. The inflexible self and lived time: a phenomenological approach to personality disorders Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt and Thomas Fuchs
- 8. Psychopharmacology and personality disorder: treatment or enhancement? Stefan Jerotic and Milutin Kostic
- 9. When do personality traits become pathological? An epistemological and evolutionary view Simone Cheli and Martin Brüne
- Part III. Novel Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder:
- 10. What does personality have to do with mental disorder? A cybernetic perspective Colin G. DeYoung and Robert F. Krueger
- 11. Self-illness ambiguity in personality disorders: Is it me or my disorder (that makes me do X)? Roy Dings, Nina de Boer, Léon de Bruin and Gerrit Glas
- 12. On personality dimensions and disorders: is a trait-based approach really the answer? Simon Boag
- 13. A dual aspect approach to personality disorder: locating the normal in the abnormal Huw Green
- 14. Network architectures of personality and its pathology Annemarie C. J. Köhne and Adela-Maria Isvoranu
- 15. From Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be to radical acceptance and radical openness: or spiritually-based dialectical approaches to neurotic character Konrad Banicki
- 16. Personality 'disorder' and the incapacity to self-regulate: answering practical and metaphysical questions Garson Leder and Tadeusz Zawidzki
- Part IV. Exploring Negative Consequences of Diagnosing Personality Disorder:
- 17. Aversive and antagonistic personality disorder: a post-colonial analysis Grant Gillett and Armon J. Tamatea
- 18. Right to be angry: affective injustice and borderline personality disorder Astrid Fly Oredsson and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
- Part V. Perspectives on Borderline and Narcissistic Personality:
- 19. How and why emptiness manifests in everyday life: borderline personality disorder and beyond Nancy Nyquist Potter
- 20. Empathy deficits in the development and maintenance of narcissistic personality disorder Thomas Schramme
- 21. Interaffectivity disturbances in narcissistic personality disorder Susi Ferrarello
- 22. Narrative accounts of the self: differentiating narcissistic from non-narcissistic personalities Louise Williams.
