'… a must-have for practitioners in the mental health field … this handbook provides in-depth analysis of the etiology and treatment of challenging disorders … is a well-documented look at personality disorders that anticipates potential or ongoing controversies about their etiology, diagnosis, or treatment.' R. E. Osborne, Choice
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction to the Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders Carl W. Lejuez and Kim L. Gratz; Part I. Etiology: 1. Neuroimaging in personality disorders Chi C. Chan, Daniel H. Vaccaro, Nina L. J. Rose, Laura E. Kessler and Erin A. Hazlett; 2. Issues and new directions in personality disorder genetics Kerry L. Jang and Fiona Choi; 3. Environmental and sociocultural influences on personality disorders Brianna J. Turner, Julie Prud'homme and Nicole Legg; 4. Personality pathology in youth Carla Sharp and Barbara De Clercq; Part II. Models: 5. Controversies in the classification and diagnosis of personality disorders Joel Paris; 6. Categorical models of personality disorders Igor Weinberg; 7. The five-factor model of personality disorders Joshua D. Miller and Thomas A. Widiger; 8. Interpersonal models of personality pathology Michael J. Roche and Emily B. Ansell; Part III. Individual Disorders and Clusters: 9. Cluster a personality disorders John G. Kerns; 10. Borderline personality disorder Alexander L. Chapman, Nora H. Hope and Brianna J. Turner; 11. An integrative biobehavioral trait perspective on antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy Sarah J. Brislin and Christopher J. Patrick; 12. Narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders Aaron L. Pincus, Sindes Dawood, Leila Z. Wu and Chloe F. Bliton; 13. Cluster C anxious-fearful personality pathology and avoidance Charles A. Sanislow and Anna Darre Hector; Part IV. Assessment: 14. Methods and current issues in dimensional assessments of personality pathology Chloe M. Evans, Trevor F. Williams and Leonard J. Simms; 15. Categorical assessment of personality disorders: considerations of reliability and validity Janine D. Flory; 16. Assessment of mechanisms in personality disorders Sheila E. Crowell, Parisa R. Kaliush and Robert D. Vlisides-Henry; Part V. Treatment: 17. Cognitive behavioral approaches M. Zachary Rosenthal, Kristin P. Wyatt and Kibby McMahon; 18. Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches to personality disorders Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison and Chloe Campbell; 19. Using DSM-5 and ICD-11 personality traits in clinical treatment Bo Bach and Jennifer Presnall-Shvorin; 20. Brief therapeutic approaches for personality disorders Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, Lindsey C. Conkey and Sherry E. Woods; 21. Recent developments in the pharmacologic management of personality disorders Paul S. Links, Philippe Boursiquot and Madison Links; Index.