1st Edition

Personality and Personality Disorders The Science of Mental Health

Edited By Steven E. Hyman Copyright 2002

    First published in 2001. This is Volume 7 in a series of ten on the Science of Mental Health. One of the most challenging areas of behavioral research is the study of personality and personality disorders. The main challenge can be stated directly: it is difficult to know with certainty which personality traits are fundamental and which are complex elaborations of fundamental traits. This is a collection of works under the sections of Description, Epidemiology, Genes and Environment, Peers and Neighborhoods, Neurobiology and Behavior and Treatment.

    Introduction; Description: A Systematic Method for the Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants; The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Its Relevance to Personality Disorders; An Alternative Description of Personality: The Big-Five Factor Structure; The Phenomenological and Conceptual Interface of Borderline and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Reconciling Processing Dynamics and Personality Dispositions; Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy; Personality and Personality Disorders; Epidemiology: The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in a Community Sample; Genes and Environment: Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart; Comparing the Biological and Cultural Inheritance of Personality and Social Attitudes in the Virginia 30,000 Study of Twins and Their Relatives; Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology: 1. Phenotypic Assessment in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development; Childhood Maltreatment Increases Risk for Personality Disorders during Early Adulthood; A Test of the Equal-Environment Assumption in Twin Studies of Psychiatric Illness; Parenting and Its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics; The Role of Inheritance in Behavior; Personality Similarity in Twins Reared Apart and Together; A Twin Study of Personality Disorders; Peers and Neighborhoods: Where Is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory Development; Neurobiology and Behavior: Insensitivity to Future Consequences following Damage to Human Prefrontal Cortex; Individuals with Sociopathic Behavior Caused by Frontal Damage Fail to Respond Autonomically to Social Stimuli; Dysfunction in the Neural Circuitry of Emotion Regulation- a Possible Prelude to Violence; Treatment: Research on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder; Psychopharmacology of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Biography

    Steven Hyman