A practical roadmap to navigate the new ICD-11 classification of personality disorders
- Written by leading ICD-11 and personality disorder experts
- Illustrated with clinical examples
- Full of practical tips
This insightful book offers professionals a comprehensive guide for navigating the new way of diagnosing and understanding personality difficulties and disorders introduced in the ICD-11. Through in-depth clinical examples, these experienced authors illustrate clearly how to determine severity, specify the five trait domains, and interpret aspects of personality dysfunction, including specific combinations of trait domains. The book also provides guidelines for differential diagnosis in relation to a range of other persistent mental disorders, clinical decision- making, individualized treatment planning, necessary treatment intensity, and psychotherapeutic focus. Readers will appreciate the exploration of available standardized instruments for classification, as well as the guide using the old classifications in the ICD-10 and the DSM-5 with the ICD-11 guidelines in the appendix. This book provides a roadmap for psychologists, psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, and students to use the latest advancements in classification to enhance patient care of people with personality disorders.
Praise for the book
“In this brilliant, persuasive, scholarly, and clinically focused work, the authors consider new perspectives on diagnosing personality disorders and superbly illustrate how to use contemporary ways of thinking in assessment and treatment.”
Anthony Bateman, FRCPsych, Visiting Professor, University College London, UK
“Bach and Simonsen have definitely succeeded in their aim to write a practical and useful text to assist clinicians in transitioning to the new way of diagnosing personality disorder in ICD-11. This book is a gem for the busy clinician!”
Michaela Swales, PhD, Professor in Clinical Psychology; Programme Director, North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, Bangor University, UK
“A much-needed guide to the new classification of personality disorders according to ICD-11.”
Ueli Kramer, PhD, Professor in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; President, European Society for the Studies of Personality Disorders, Lausanne, Switzerland
