This book provides an expert synthesis of recent research and clinical interest in personality disorders.

Part I. The Nature of the Problem: 1. The nature of personality disorder; 2. Differences between psychopathy and other personality disorders: evidence from neuroimaging; 3. Challenges in the treatment of dangerous and severe personality disorder; 4. Are you looking at me? Understanding and managing paranoid personality disorder; 5. Personality disorder in older people: how common is it and what can be done?; 6. Management of common personality disorders in the acute setting; 7. Personality disorder in women; 8. Personality disorder in adolescence; Part II. Management and General Treatment Approaches: 9. Assessment of personality disorder; 10. Diagnosis and classification of personality disorder: difficulties, their resolution and implications for practice; 11. Murmurs of discontent: treatment and treatability of personality disorder; 12. Personality disorder: its impact on staff and the role of supervision; Part III. Specific Treatment Approaches: 13. Treating personality disorder: methods and outcomes; 14. Skills-based therapies for personality disorder; 15. Insight-oriented therapies for personality disorder; 16. Treatment approaches for severe personality disorder; 17. Mindfulness in the psychotherapy of personality disorder; 18. Cognitive analytic therapy for borderline personality disorder; 19. Contemporary therapeutic communities: complex treatment for complex needs; 20. Nidotherapy: making the environment do the therapeutic work.