Personality and Psychological Disorders by Claridge, Gordon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Title Copyright Contents Preface Chapter 1 Connecting personality and disorder

Some theoretical issues An historical perspective Layout of the book

Chapter 2 Description, classification, and models of disorder

The medical classification The dimensional approach

Historical considerations: HJ Eysenck Comments on Eysenck’s theory A dimensional model of psychological disorder From continuity to discontinuity

Summary and conclusions

Chapter 3 Personality dimensions: description and biology

Historical antecedents and Eysenck’s theory

The Eysenck dimensions Eysenck’s ‘causal’ theories A note on the status of Psychoticism (P)

Temperament and personality compared Contemporary theorists

Gray Cloninger Zuckerman Five-factor theory (Costa & McCrae)

An integrated view of the theories Genetic considerations

Behaviour genetics Molecular genetics

The developmental perspective Summary and conclusions

Chapter 4 Personality disorders

Some basic features Personality disorders in DSM-IV Personality disorders and models of the abnormal Approaches to the explanation of personality disorders

Five-factor theory and Axis II Cloninger revisited The work of Millon Beck’s cognitive approach

Particular personality disorders

Antisocial personality disorder (psychopathy) Borderline personality disorder

Summary and conclusions

Chapter 5 Mood and anxiety disorders

Introduction Animal models Common symptoms of mood and anxiety disorders

Fearfulness Anxiousness Melancholy

Chapter 6 Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

Introduction Natural history of the disorder Causal explanations of OCD

Biological models Cognitive models of OCD

Personality factors in OCD Obsessive-Compulsive spectrum disorders

Chapter 7 Addictive behaviours

Introduction Clinical features The neurobiology of addiction Chronic use of addictive behaviours Vulnerability to addiction

Sensitivity to reward (SRT) Impulsive behaviour Proneness to anxiety and negative mood

Chapter 8 Eating disorders

Introduction Clinical features Historical perspectives Research methodology Temperament and personality

Obsessionality and the eating disorders Perfectionism and the eating disorders Impulsivity and the eating disorders Anxiousness and the eating disorders Sensitivity to reward, addiction, and the eating disorders

The pathophysiology of eating disorders Conclusions

Chapter 9 Psychotic disorders

Definitions and descriptions The issue of heterogeneity

One psychosis or two? One schizophrenia or several?

Dimensional aspects of schizophrenia

Quasi- versus fully dimensional models Measurement of schizotypy

Explaining schizophrenia

Research problems and strategies Genetics and risk for schizophrenia Experimental psychopathology of schizophrenia Brain systems in schizophrenia

Manic depression

The unitary psychosis issue Dimensionality of manic depression

Conclusions

Chapter 10 Final remarks References Index