Disorders of Personality: Introducing a DSM ICD Spectrum from Normal to Abnormal (Wiley Series on Personality Processes)

Now in its Third Edition, this book clarifies the distinctions between the vast array of personality disorders and helps clinicians make accurate diagnoses. It has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the changes in the forthcoming DSM-5. Using the classification scheme he pioneered, Dr. Millon guides clinicians through the intricate maze of personality disorders, with special attention to changes in their conceptualization over the last decade. Extensive new research is included, as well as the incorporation of over 50 new illustrative and therapeutically detailed cases. This is every mental health professional's essential volume to fully understanding personality. From the Author: Does Psychiatry Itself Have a Personality Problem? From early in the 20th century, Freud, Adler and Jung wrangled over whose treatment approach was best. Now, today, there are literally dozens of therapies, each vying for its preeminence, shifting yearly in their “popularity”, from psychodynamic to pharmaceuticals, to behavioral, to cognitive, to family, and who knows what else? No less troubling is psychiatry’s inability to maintain a decent measure of clarity or stability in its diagnostic Bible, the DSM, now undergoing its fifth revision in recent decades, and stirring up powerful controversies as it presses for further radical changes since the innovative DSM-III and DSM-IV. What are being proposed is the recasting or dropping of such classical syndromes as the paranoid, the narcissistic, the schizoid and the histrionic (hysterical) personality, while proposing the ascendance of recent types such as the schizotypal, avoidant and borderline. Are these changes a scientifically based index of “survival of the fittest” or another fad of the times, to be recast again in the DSM-6? It appears that the psychiatric profession can’t make up its own mind about what disorders exist and how best to treat them. If they were a patient, they would likely be “diagnosed” with the “borderline personality” label, a disorder noted for its identity confusion, instability, impulsive mood changes, periodic feelings of emptiness, and self-injurious behaviors. Chaos does seem to reign in the consulting room, but who has the disorder, the doctor or the patient? CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 8 PART I. HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS......Page 15 1. HISTORICAL, MODERN, AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO PERSONOLOGY......Page 16 2. SOURCES OF PERSONOLOGIC AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT......Page 76 3. CLINICAL METHODS AND INSTRUMENTSOF PERSONALIZED ASSESSMENT......Page 132 4. LOGIC AND MODALITIES OF PERSONALIZED PSYCHOTHERAPY......Page 193 5. CLASSIFICATION CONSIDERATIONS, DSM-5 PRELIMS, AND PROPOSALS FOR PERSONOLOGY......Page 245 PART II. INTERPERSONALLY IMBALANCED SPECTRA......Page 297 6. DEFERENTIAL STYLES, ATTACHED TYPES, DEPENDENT DISORDERS: THE DAD SPECTRUM......Page 298 7. SOCIABLE STYLES, PLEASURING TYPES, HISTRIONIC DISORDERS: THE SPH SPECTRUM......Page 341 8. CONFIDENT STYLES, EGOTISTIC TYPES, NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS: THE CEN SPECTRUM......Page 386 9. AGGRANDIZING STYLES, DEVIOUS TYPES, ANTISOCIAL DISORDERS: THE ADA SPECTRUM......Page 434 PART III. INTRAPSYCHICALLY CONFLICTED SPECTRA......Page 487 10. RELIABLE STYLES, CONSTRICTED TYPES, COMPULSIVE DISORDERS: THE RCC SPECTRUM......Page 488 11. DISCONTENTED STYLES, RESENTFUL TYPES, NEGATIVISTIC DISORDERS: THE DRN SPECTRUM......Page 535 12. AGGRIEVED TYPES, MASOCHISTIC DISORDERS: THE AAM SPECTRUM......Page 581 13. ASSERTIVE STYLES, DENIGRATING TYPES, SADISTIC DISORDERS: THE ADS SPECTRUM......Page 625 PART IV. EMOTIONALLY EXTREME SPECTRA......Page 669 14. APATHETIC STYLES, ASOCIAL TYPES, SCHIZOID DISORDERS: THE AAS SPECTRUM......Page 670 15. SHY STYLES, RETICENT TYPES, AVOIDANT DISORDERS: THE SRA SPECTRUM......Page 715 16. DEJECTED STYLES, FORLORN TYPES, MELANCHOLIC DISORDERS: THE DFM SPECTRUM......Page 761 17. EBULLIENT STYLES, EXUBERANT TYPES, TURBULENT DISORDERS: THE EET SPECTRUM......Page 805 PART V. STRUCTURALLY DEFECTIVE SPECTRA......Page 836 18. ECCENTRIC STYLES, SCHIZOTYPAL TYPES, SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS: THE ESS SPECTRUM......Page 837 19. BORDERLINE TYPES, CYCLOPHRENIC DISORDERS: THE UBC SPECTRUM......Page 896 20. MISTRUSTFUL STYLES, PARANOID TYPES, PARAPHRENIC DISORDERS: THE MPP SPECTRUM......Page 959 REFERENCES......Page 1015 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 1066

Now in its Third Edition, this book clarifies the distinctions between the vast array of personality disorders and helps clinicians make accurate diagnoses. It has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the changes in the forthcoming DSM-5. Using the classification scheme he pioneered, Dr. Millon guides clinicians through the intricate maze of personality disorders, with special attention to changes in their conceptualization over the last decade. Extensive new research is included, as well as the incorporation of over 50 new illustrative and therapeutically detailed cases. This is every mental health professional's essential volume to fully understanding personality.

Historical, modern, and contemporary approaches to personology Sources of personologic and psychopathologic development Clinical methods and instruments of personalized assessment Logic and modalities of personalized psychotherapy Classification considerations, DSM-V prelims and proposals for personology.