Personality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence Based Approach (Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology)

Personality, personality disorder and violence : an introduction / Mary Mcmurran -- The "functional link" between personality disorder and violence a critical appraisal / Conor Duggan & Richard Howard -- Traits : a systematic review of the relationship between childhood impulsiveness and later violence / Darrick Joliffe & David P Farrington -- The big 5 : neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness as an organisational scheme for thinking about aggression and violence / Vincent Egan -- Narcissism / Caroline Logan -- Subtypes of psychopath / Ronald Blackburn -- Antisocial personality disorder / Stephane de Brito, & Sheilagh Hodginssych -- The neurobiology of affective dyscontrol : implications for understanding "dangerous and severe personality disorder" / Richard Howard -- The processing of emotional expression information in individuals with psychopathy / James Blair -- Angry affect, aggression and personality disorder / Kevin Howells -- Attachment difficulties / Anthony Beech and Ian Mitchell -- Cognition psychopathic violence : a cognitive-attention perspective / Jennifer Vitale & Joseph Newman -- Social problem solving, personality disorder, and violence / Mary Mcmurran -- Criminal thinking / Glenn Walters

Presents the evidence-base for links between personality traits, psychological functioning, personality disorder and violence - with a focus on assessment and treatment approaches that will help clinicians to assess risk in this client group.

• An evidence-based examination of those personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence- and the links that can be made between the two
• Each chapter tackles an area of personality or psychological functioning and includes a developmental perspective, discussion of how to gauge risk, and an outline of effective treatments
• Traits covered include impulsivity, aggressiveness, narcissism and the 'Big Five' - neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness
• New for the prestigious Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, a market leader with more than 20, 000 books in print

The contributors to this text take an evidence-based look at personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence, and make links between the two