Personality and Personality Disorders: The Science of Mental Health

ISBN-13: 9780815337508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 376 str.

Steven E. Hyman;Steven E. Hyman

Opis

The Science of Mental Health is a one-stop resource for major issues and classic controversies in mental health. To create this collection, a leading expert in the field has reviewed thousands of articles in hundreds of scientific journals. The result is an authoritative selection that represents the most significant research worldwide and provides a balanced perspective on the field.

Spis treści

Introduction; Description: A Systematic Method for the Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants; The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Its Relevance to Personality Disorders; An Alternative Description of Personality: The Big-Five Factor Structure; The Phenomenological and Conceptual Interface of Borderline and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Reconciling Processing Dynamics and Personality Dispositions; Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy; Personality and Personality Disorders; Epidemiology: The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in a Community Sample; Genes and Environment: Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart; Comparing the Biological and Cultural Inheritance of Personality and Social Attitudes in the Virginia 30,000 Study of Twins and Their Relatives; Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology: 1. Phenotypic Assessment in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development; Childhood Maltreatment Increases Risk for Personality Disorders during Early Adulthood; A Test of the Equal-Environment Assumption in Twin Studies of Psychiatric Illness; Parenting and Its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics; The Role of Inheritance in Behavior; Personality Similarity in Twins Reared Apart and Together; A Twin Study of Personality Disorders; Peers and Neighborhoods: Where Is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory Development; Neurobiology and Behavior: Insensitivity to Future Consequences following Damage to Human Prefrontal Cortex; Individuals with Sociopathic Behavior Caused by Frontal Damage Fail to Respond Autonomically to Social Stimuli; Dysfunction in the Neural Circuitry of Emotion Regulation- a Possible Prelude to Violence; Treatment: Research on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder; Psychopharmacology of Borderline Personality Disorder

O autorze

Steven Hyman