Major Theories of Personality Disorder

481 Pages·2004·4.63 MB·English

by  Mark F. Lenzenweger Phd, John F. Clarkin PhD

Major Theories of Personality Disorder
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Major Theories of
Personality Disorder
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SECOND EDITION
edited by
Mark F. Lenzenweger
John F. Clarkin
THE GUILFORD PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Major theories of personality disorder / edited by Mark F. Lenzenweger, John
F. Clarkin.—2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-59385-108-1 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Personality disorders. I. Lenzenweger, Mark F. II. Clarkin, John F.
RC554.M24 2005
616.85′81–dc22
2004019448
About the Editors
Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Science, Cognitive Psy-
chology, and Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at
the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and Adjunct Pro-
fessor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, New York City. He also directs the Laboratory of Experimental
Psychopathology at SUNY–Binghamton, where he conducts research and
teaches on personality disorders, schizophrenia, schizotypy, and statistical
methods.
John F. Clarkin, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at
the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Psychology
and Co-Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at New York–
Presbyterian Hospital. His academic writing and research have focused on
the phenomenology of the personality disorders and the treatment of
patients with borderline personality disorder.
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Contributors
Aaron T. Beck, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Beck Center for Cognitive Therapy, Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania
Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
Eve Caligor, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York; Columbia University Center
for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New York
John F. Clarkin, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Weill College of Medicine of
Cornell University, New York, New York; Personality Disorders Institute, New
York–Presbyterian Hospital, White Plains, New York
Richard A. Depue, PhD, Laboratory of Neurobiology of Temperament and
Personality, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Seth D. Grossman, PhD, Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and
Psychopathology, Miami, Florida
Otto F. Kernberg, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Weill College of Medicine of
Cornell University, New York, New York; Personality Disorders Institute, New
York–Presbyterian Hospital, White Plains, New York; Columbia
University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, New
York
Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD, Department of Psychology, State University of New
York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York; Department of Psychiatry, Weill
College of Medicine of Cornell University, New York, New York
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Björn Meyer, PhD, School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, University of
Surrey Roehampton, Whitelands College, London, England
Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and
Psychopathology, Miami, Florida; Department of Psychology, University of
Miami, Miami, Florida; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/
McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
Paul A. Pilkonis, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute
and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aaron L. Pincus, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania
James L. Pretzer, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio; Cleveland Center for Cognitive Therapy,
Beachwood, Ohio
Preface
Nearly 10 years have passed since we published the first edition of Major
Theories of Personality Disorder. The ensuing decade has been an exciting
one indeed with respect to the advances that have occurred in our under-
standing of the fundamental nature of personality disorders as well as their
treatment. In assembling the second edition of Major Theories, as many of
our colleagues refer to this volume, we invited all our original contributors
to revise, amend, and extend their original position pieces in light of the
advancing empirical literature in personality disorders research. We also
invited them to offer their most recent thoughts and creative ideas with
respect to their own theories of personality disorder. We encouraged all of
our contributors to “take risks,” as it were, and to again advance novel
propositions within the context of their models as they saw fit. We are
excited to note that all of the chapters that were included in the first edition
of Major Theories have been substantially revised and updated for this edi-
tion; some chapters were nearly completely rewritten. Thus, the second edi-
tion contains much that is new and intellectually stimulating. Moreover, we
have added two new chapters to the second edition, namely, an additional
chapter on interpersonal theory by Aaron Pincus and a chapter on an
attachment model of personality disorders by Björn Meyer and Paul
Pilkonis. These chapters were added to further expand the richness of the
interpersonal perspective that is quite central to the basic nature of person-
ality disorders.
As we did earlier, we continue to view each of the theoretical models
in this volume as a research heuristic, a stimulus for both further theory/
model development and empirical research. No comprehensive and inte-
grated model of personality disorder exists; however, we believe the fertile
models presented in this volume along with recent advances in research
strategy will move the field closer to such a model in the coming years.
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