Table of Contents

Part I: The DSM-IV Classification of Personality Disorders. T. Millon, R. Davis, Conceptions of Personality Disorders: Historical Perspectives, the DSM's, and Future Directions. P. Tyrer, Are Personality Disorders Well Classified in DSM-IV? Part II: DSM-IV Personality Disorder Diagnoses. D.P. Bernstein, D. Useda, L.J. Siever, Paranoid Personality Disorder. O. Kalus, D.P. Bernstein, L.J. Siever, Schizoid Personality Disorder. L.J. Siever, D.P. Bernstein, J.M. Silverman, Schizotypal Personality Disorder. S. Torgersen, Commentary on Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders. T.A. Widiger, E.M. Corbitt, Antisocial Personality Disorder. R.D. Hare, S. Hart, Commentary on Antisocial Personality Disorder: The DSM-IV Field Trial. L. Robins, Commentary on Antisocial Personality Disorder. J.G. Gunderson, M.C. Zanarini, C.L. Kisiel, Borderline Personality Disorder. A.A. Dahl, Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder. S. Taylor, Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder. B. Pfohl, Histrionic Personality Disorder. H. Merskey, Commentary on Histrionic Personality Disorder: Where Should We Go with Hysteria? J.G. Gunderson, E. Ronningstam, L.E. Smith, Narcissistic Personality Disorder. J. Paris, Commentary on Narcissistic Personality. T. Millon, A. Martinez, Avoidant Personality Disorder. P.A. Pilkonis, Commentary on Avoidant Personality Disorder: Temperament, Shame, or Both? R.M.A. Hirschfeld, M.T. Shea, R. Weise, Dependent Personality Disorder. W.J. Livesley, Commentary on Dependent Personality Disorder. B. Pfohl, N. Blum, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. J.M. Pollak, Commentary on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. K.A. Phillips, R.M.A. Hirschfeld, M.T. Shea, J. Gunderson, Depressive Personality Disorder. P. McLean, S. Woody, Commentary on Depressive Personality Disorder: A False Start. Part III: Appended and Deleted Diagnoses. T. Millon, J. Radovanov, Passive-Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder. E. Baerg, Commentary on Passive-Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder. S.J. Fiester, M. Gay, Sadistic Personality Disorder. S.J. Fiester, Self-Defeating Personality Disorder. T.A. Widiger, Deletion of Self-Defeating and Sadistic Personality Disorders. Part IV: Basic Issues and Alternative Perspectives. R. Davis, T. Millon, The Importance of Theory to a Taxonomy of Personality Disorders. T. Shea, Interrelationships among Categories of Personality Disorders. R.K. Blashfield, R.A. McElroy, Confusions in the Terminology Used for Classification Models. M.A. Schwartz, O.P. Wiggins, M.A. Norko, Prototypes, Ideal Types, and Personality Disorders: The Return to Classical Phenomenology. T.A. Widiger, C.J. Sanderson, Toward a Dimensional Model of Personality Disorders in DSM-IV and DSM-V. D.N. Jackson, W.J. Livesley, Possible Contributions from Personality Assessment to the Classification of Personality Disorders. L.A. Clark, The Challenge of Alternative Perspectives: A Discussion of Basic Issues. W.J. Livesley, Past Achievements and Future Directions.

About the Author

Dr. John Livesley, MD, PhD is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at University of British Columbia, a position he has held since 1992.

Dr. Livesley was born just outside Liverpool, England. He completed an undergraduate degree at University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in psychology with a thesis on the development of personality. After a brief period on faculty at University of Liverpool and experience in a child guidance clinic, he completed medical training, again at University of Liverpool. Subsequently, he moved to University of Edinburgh for specialist training in psychiatry. He was Lecturer in Psychiatry at University of Edinburgh from 1977 until 1979, when he moved to University of Calgary. In 1987, he became Professor of Psychiatry and National Health Research Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Colombia.

Dr. Livesley's academic interests are in the classification, assessment, and etiology of personality disorders. He also has an interest in the general problem of classifying mental disorders. His research on personality disorder has focused on identifying some of the basic components of personality pathology and investigating the environmental and genetic factors that contribute to personalty problems. His clinical interests are in the treatment of personality disorder with particular emphasis on psychological interventions.

Dr. Livesley was recently appointed editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders, and he has served as advisor to the DSM-IIIR and DSM-IV working groups on the classification of personality disorder.

Reviews

"For the clinician or researcher interested in the current state of knowledge about personality disorders and how they should be conceptualized, classified and defined, this book is a gold mine. It not only includes a discussion of each of the DSM-IV personality disorders prepared by members of the DSM-IV Personality Disorders Work Group, but also presents critical commentaries on many of the controversial DSM-IV personality disorders, such as borderline and antisocial personality disorder. Having been an insider-outsider to the DSM-IV process, I can attest to the accuracy of the accounts of the DSM-IV Personality Work Group controversies and how they were resolved, such as the deletion of the DSM-III-R appendix categories of Sadistic and Self-defeating Personality Disorder. The DSM categorical approach to personality disorder classification is critically examined in several chapters and alternative models are presented. Dr. Livesley, the editor, and himself an important personality disorder researcher, is to be congratulated for providing the field with such a useful and important book." --Robert L. Spitzer, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University and former Chair, DSM-III and DSM-III-R Work Group "W. John Livesley, the editor of this volume, has assembled an outstanding group of authors who cover the background and decisions on the diagnostic criteria for all of the personality disorders in DSM-IV. Most importantly, the editor recognizes the limitations of DSM-IV, and has directed the authors to also discuss and consider alternative approaches to the description of personality disorders and problems. Any student or scholar on personality pathology must read this book." --John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, Dept of Psychology
"This volume is an essential companion to the DSM-IV for clinicians and researchers concerned with personality disorders and personality theory. Reports by members of the DSM-IV Work Group present the background information and reasons for changes made in the personality disorder definitions. Commentaries by other experts provide a lively and thought-provoking counterpoint. But what is most exciting to the scholar is that all of these details are combined with thoughtful and rich discussions of the key conceptual issues and theoretical perspectives that must be considered in the ongoing effort to build a useful and robust taxonomy of personality pathology." --Marjorie H. Klein, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Psychiatry


.,.".Given its thoroughness and comprehensiveness, this is a substantial contribution to the elucidation of a key realm of psychopathology." --"Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic"

...".Given its thoroughness and comprehensiveness, this is a substantial contribution to the elucidation of a key realm of psychopathology." --"Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic"