This guide is both compatible with the DSM-5 Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and elaborates on it, offering clinicians at all levels of experience an accessible framework to guide evaluation and treatment of personality disorders.

Providing an integrated, innovative synthesis of contemporary psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy embedded in a contemporary model of psychopathology, Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Treating Self and Interpersonal Functioning introduces Dynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders, a specialized, theory-driven approach to the treatment of personality disorders.