Personality disorders. Dealing with difficult clients

By Rainer Sachse

Subject:
A reference book for medical carers so they can engage, with knowledge and understanding, patients suffering from personality disorders.

Target audience:
Doctors, therapists, social workers and social pedagogues, psychiatric carers, and to a lesser extent relatives.

Content:

Patients with personality disorders are considered to be difficult and to get on peoples nerves. They have a reputation for pitting psychiatric teams and wards against each other and being difficult to treat.

Rainer Sachse shows how you can develop an understanding of and an approach to these patients. He thinks that personality disorders are, at their core, relationship disorders. By using the duel activity regulation model that he developed, he traces how these unfavourable relationship patterns come about, how they are intensified within the family, how they develop during later life and what problems arise for clients with personality disorders and the people around them. Each chapter deals with a different personality type and describes and explains the associated specific characteristics. Numerous examples illustrate relationship traps and tests that therapists and psycho-social professionals are often confronted with. They also describe how best to constructively deal with such cases. Finally, chapters about the specific problems of teamwork and working with families finish the book off.

Author:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Sachse, Head of the Institut für Psychologische Psychotherapie (IPP) in Bochum. Numerous publications, mainly in the fields of psychotherapy research and therapeutic relationship forming.

Original title:

"Persönlichkeitsstörungen verstehen. Zum Umgang mit schwierigen Klienten"

Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn, 140 Pages, German retail price 19.90 EUR.
First Published in 2006

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