Personality Disorders involve long-term patterns of thoughts and behaviors that are different from what is considered normal in your culture. The thoughts and behaviors are unhealthy and inflexible. They cause serious problems with relationships, work, and social activities. They can make it hard to deal with everyday stresses and problems.
Cluster A Personality Disorders involve unusual and odd thoughts and behaviors, including Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal personality disorders.
Cluster B Personality Disorders involve dramatic and emotional thoughts and behaviors that can keep changing, including Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic personality disorders.
Cluster C Personality Disorders involve anxious and fearful thoughts and behaviors, including Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorders.
(Definitions from MedlinePlus.)
Custer A personality disorders include paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Each has features that overlap with psychotic disorders making it easy to confuse them, so we’ll spend some time learning how to disentangle each from schizophrenia as well as reviewing how to diagnose them.
Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook by
Developed from years of experience working with complex and challenging clients, Daniel Fox, PhD has created the ultimate workbook to effectively treat clients with antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. Utilize unique worksheets, checklists and other exercises to diagnose, tackle specific issues, reduce problematic symptoms and keep therapy moving forward. Take advantage of concrete methods to: Reduce self-mutilation and other risky behaviors; improve attachment, collaboration and trust; conquer maladaptive beliefs and diffuse narcissistic resistance; assess transference/countertransference issues; determine narcissistic drives for perfection and excellence; lessen flirtatious behaviors; and apply DBT strategies and skills into treatment.
Complex Borderline Personality Disorder by
There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), especially for people with coexisting conditions. BPD rarely occurs alone. In this guide, internationally recognized BPD expert Daniel J. Fox offers a breakthrough understanding of what he calls complex borderline personality disorder (C-BPD), a form of BPD that is complicated by the presence of comorbid conditions. With this book, readers will find a tailored approach to managing their symptoms based on the presence of coexisting conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and more.
A Concise Guide to Personality Disorders by
This concise, 195-page book is broken down into three parts: general issues about personaliy disorders, details about specific personality disorders, and treatments and research.
Personality Disorders by
In this book, the author explores how personality disorders rose to prominence in a variety of disciplines and the controversies they have generated. It will consider the variety of ways that personalities have been seen as "disorders" and tied to or separated from other kinds of mental disorders. Relatedly, it will examine how the notion of the "personality disorder" has involved negative moral and cultural evaluations that are more related to social deviance than to medical conditions.
Talking about BPD by
Talking About BPD is a positive, stigma-free guide to life with borderline personality disorder (BPD) from award-winning blogger Rosie Cappuccino. Addressing what BPD is, the journey to diagnosis and available treatments, Rosie offers advice on life with BPD and shares practical tips and DBT-based techniques for coping day to day. Topics such as how to talk about BPD to those around you, managing relationships and self-harm are also explored. Throughout, Rosie shares her own experiences and works to dispel stigma and challenge the stereotypes often associated with the disorder.
The Way She Feels by
From the author: "I'm Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with over four million other people in the United States. In my illustrated memoir The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces, I share what it's been like to live and love with this disorder. Not just the hospitalizations, treatments, and residential therapy, but the moments I found comfort in cereal, the color pink, or mini corn dogs; the days I couldn't style my hair because I thought the blow-dryer was going to hurt me; the peace I found when someone I love held me. This is a book about vulnerability, honesty, acceptance, and how to speak openly-not only with doctors, co-patients, friends, family, or partners, but also with ourselves."
Cluster B (including borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders) is the most common of type of personality disorder to encounter in clinical settings. In addition, they are among the most impairing conditions in all psychiatry, so it’s important to have a good understanding of them if you will be working in any health care setting.
Personality disorders among the most misunderstood and under diagnosed conditions in all of psychiatry. Learn more about the foundational science of personality as well as how inflexible, disabling, and extreme traits lead to the dysfunction of personality disorders.
Our final video on personality disorders covers cluster C, including dependent, obsessive-compulsive, and avoidant personality disorders. These are commonly mistaken for anxiety disorders, but the truth is a lot more nuanced than that!
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