Personality-Disordered Patients GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS and the clash between growing

and the clash between growing public support and the often hostile stance of clinicians and medical researchers

including individual and group-based cognitive-behavioral therapies

outpatient clinic

from major depressive and bipolar disorder

as evidenced by eating disorders

Personality-Disordered Patients GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS and the clash between growingDetermining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment is important in helping clinicians determine the treatability of cases. Michael Stone here shares the factors he has observed over long years of practice that can help practitioners evaluate patients, stressing the amenability of the various disorders to amelioration. By focusing on which patients are likely to