Treating Difficult Personality Disorders

Treating Difficult Personality Disorders offers practical guidance for clinicians working with clients whose personality disorders can have lifelong negative effects on identity, work, and relationships. In this essential resource, experts in the field provide the most current information for the successful assessment and clinical treatment of this challenging client population. Written in jargon-free language, this book presents flexible treatment options for clients suffering from borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial personality disorders.

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique
Offers the most current information for working with this challenging client population and outlines proven treatment options for borderline, narcissistic, and anti-social personalities. Also addresses the question of countertransference with reassuring, supportive advice to help practitioners deal with their own frustration.