Table of Contents

List of Review Contributors.PrefaceChapter 1. Schizotypal, Schizoid and Paranoid DisordersCluster A Personality Disorders: A Review (Josef Parnas, Deborah Licht and Pierre Bovet).Chapter 2. Antisocial DisorderAntisocial Personality Disorder: A Review (C. Robert Cloninger).Chapter 3. Histrionic and Borderline DisorderBorderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders: A Review (Michael H. Stone).Chapter 4. Narcissistic DisorderNarcissistic Personality Disorder: A Review (Elsa Ronningstam).Chapter 5. The Anxious ClusterThe Anxious Cluster of Personality Disorders: A Review (Peter Tyrer).Chapter 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality DisorderThe Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): A Review (Paul T. Costa, Jack Samuels, Michael Bagby, Lee Daffin and Hillary Norton).Epilogue: The Renaissance of the Ancient Concept of Temperament (with a Focus on Affective Temperaments) (Hagop S. Akiskal and Kareen Akiskal).Index.

About the Author

Mario Maj, University of Naples, Italy Hagop S. Asiskal, University of California, San Diego, USA Juan E. Mezzich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA Ahmed Okasha, Ain Shams University, Cario, Egypt

Reviews

"This well-ordered text by a world-wide collection of experts provides an authoritative exploration of these common and misunderstood conditions." (Electric Review, November/December 2005) "...clearly well researched and reasonably organized..." (Doody's Health Services)