Integrated Treatment for Personality Disorder

Rather than arguing for one best approach for treating personality disorder, this pragmatic book emphasizes the benefits of weaving together multiple well-established intervention strategies to meet each patient's needs. A framework is provided for constructing a comprehensive case formulation, planning treatment, and developing a strong therapeutic alliance. The clinician is guided to utilize techniques from all major therapeutic orientations to address transdiagnostic personality symptoms and problems involving emotion regulation, interpersonal functioning, and self and identity. Showing how to pick and choose from "what works" in a thoughtful, coordinated fashion, the book features rich clinical illustrations, including a chapter-length case example.

See alsoHandbook of Personality Disorders, Second Edition, edited by W. John Livesley and Roseann Larstone, the leading reference that surveys theory, research, and evidence-based treatments.

I. Conceptual Framework and Treatment Principles
1. Why Integrated Treatment?: General Principles of Therapeutic Change, W. John Livesley, Giancarlo Dimaggio, & John F. Clarkin
2. A General Framework for Integrated Modular Treatment, W. John Livesley & John F. Clarkin
II. Assessment, Treatment Planning, and the Treatment Contract
3. Diagnosis and Assessment, W. John Livesley & John F. Clarkin
4. Formulation and Treatment Planning, John F. Clarkin & W. John Livesley
5. Establishing a Treatment Framework and Therapeutic Alliance, Paul S. Links, Deanna Mercer, & Jon Novick
III. General Change Principles and Mechanisms
6.  A Relational Approach to Personality Disorder and Alliance Rupture, Sumru Tufekcioglu & J. Christopher Muran
7. The Role of Mentalization in Treatments for Personality Disorder, Anthony W. Bateman & Peter Fonagy
8. Improving Metacognition by Accessing Autobiographical Memories, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Raffaele Popolo, Antonino Carcione, & Giampaolo Salvatore
IV. Treating Symptoms and Dysregulated Emotions
9. Managing Suicidal and Other Crises, Paul S. Links & Yvonne Bergmans
10. Psychopharmacological Considerations in Integrated Modular Treatment, Kenneth R. Silk & Robert O. Friedel
11. A Modular Strategy for Treating Emotional Dysregulation, W. John Livesley
12. Treating Emotional Schemas, Robert L. Leahy
13. Adapting Mindfulness for Treating Personality Disorder, Paolo Ottavi, Tiziana Passarella, Manuela Pasinetti, Giampaolo Salvatore, & Giancarlo Dimaggio
V. Treating Interpersonal and Self Functioning
14. Treating Maladaptive Interpersonal Signatures, Nicole M. Cain & Aaron L. Pincus
15. Promoting Radical Openness and Flexible Control, Thomas R. Lynch, Roelie J. Hempel, & Lee Anna Clark
16. Treatment of Violence-Prone Individuals with Psychopathic Personality Traits, Stephen C. P. Wong
17. Enriching Self-Narratives: Advanced Phases of Treatment, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Raffaele Popolo,  Antonino Carcione, Giampaolo Salvatore, & William B. Stiles
18. Strategies for Constructing a More Adaptive Self-System, John F. Clarkin, Frank Yeomans, Chiara De Panfilis, & Kenneth N. Levy
19. Promoting Integration between Different Self-States through Ongoing Reformulation, Giampaolo Salvatore, Raffaele Popolo, & Giancarlo Dimaggio
VI. Integration
20. A Case Study of Integrated Treatment, John F. Clarkin, W. John Livesley, & Giancarlo Dimaggio
21. A Final Review of Integrated Modular Treatment for Personality Disorders, John F. Clarkin, W. John Livesley, & Giancarlo Dimaggio