Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders enhances the assessment and treatment of individuals suffering from personality disorders and eating disorders, and augments the understanding of both populations, while establishing a foundation for discussing each as they interface with one another.

About the Editors. Contributors. The Lost Years. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Personality Conceptualization. Jovev and Jackson, Personality Disorder Constructs and Conceptualizations. Epidemiology. Sansone, Levitt, and Sansone, The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Those with Eating Disorders. Etiology. Favaro and Santonastaso, Impulsivity Versus Compulsivity in Eating Disorder Patients. Sansone and Sansone, Childhood Trauma, Personality Disorders, and Eating Disorders. Assessment. Stepp, Schwartz, Solhan and Trull, Clinical Assessment of Personality Disorders. Vitousek and Stumpf, Difficulties in the Assessment of Personality Traits and Disorders in Eating-Disordered Individuals. Personality Disorders Most Relevant to Eating Disorders. Parikh and Halmi, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality and Eating Disorders. Sansone and Levitt, Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders. Levitt and Sansone, Avoidant Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders. Treatment Approaches. Russell, Treatment Strategies in the Obsessive-Compulsive Individual with an Eating Disorder. Levitt, A Self-Regulation Treatment Approach for the Eating Disordered Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder. Sansone and Sansone, Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders: An Eclectic Approach to Treatment. Hinrichsen and Waller, The Treatment of Avoidant Personality Disorder in Patients with Eating Disorders. Sansone and Sansone, The Use of Psychotropic Medications in Eating Disorder Patients with Personality Disorders. Outcome. Bruce and Steiger, Prognostic Implications of Personality Disorders in Eating Disorders.