Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment

Volkan, University of Virginia, author of "Enemies on the Couch: A Psychopolitical Journey Through War and Peace")This encyclopedic text is most impressive in its ability to organize all the personality disorders in a modern dimensional system while still retaining the nosological categories that emphasize the centrality of identity disturbances and splitting for the more severe forms. He meticulously outlines the characteristics of each of the severe personality disorders and desribes in encyclopedic fashion the technical issues pertaining to their treatment, making this book a valuable desk reference for students as well as for seasoned clinicians. Akhtar offers a fresh and novel classification of severe personality disorders. (Melvin Singer) . A wonderful work. (Vamk D. This outstanding book by Dr. Utilizing his wide

This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.

He is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, an associate editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, past member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, and an editorial reader for Psychoanalytic Quarterly. , is Professor of Psychiatry at Jef

"very academic" according to Kathleen Christie. This book is a textbook, absolutely complete, but not for the lay reader. If you're looking for a complete examination of personality disorders, this is it. If you want an easier and faster book for this topic, I would look elsewhere. However, it did provide me with excellent information on the topic.. Excellent textbook on a difficult topic Kate L. This is brilliantly written, as is all of Akhtar's work. He has a way of presenting technical diagnostic material in a way accessible to moderately trained laymen.. Five Stars Eric A. Bell Excellent presentation of clinically relevant material.