Book contents
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Chapter 1 Personality Disorders
- Chapter 2 Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - Personality Disorders
The History of an Idea
from Part I - General Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2020
Book contents
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Social Factors in the Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part I General Principles
- Chapter 1 Personality Disorders
- Chapter 2 Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
- Part II Social Mechanisms
- Part III Specific Patterns of Disorder
- Part IV Models and Clinical Applications
- References
- Index
Summary
Personality disorders (PDs) were not always considered to be mental illnesses. Even today, there is resistance to this point of view. So how did people with these problems come to be seen as meriting a psychiatric diagnosis? The problem has always concerned how to draw a line between normality and pathology.
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- Social Factors in the Personality DisordersFinding a Niche, pp. 3 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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