Overview
Provides an overview of pre-treatment phase procedures such as assessment interviews
Explains the Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) approach and summarizes MIT clinical guidelines
Outlines pharmacological treatment for patients with PDs
Includes checklists and other useful resources for therapists evaluating their adherence to the treatment method
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- cognitive psychotherapy
- personality disorders
- personality disorder treatment
- metacognition
- metacognitive and interpersonal therapy
- well-being
- complex personality disorders
- psychopathology
- personality pathology
- treatment integration
- pharmacological treatment of personality disorders
- personality disorder diagnosis
- mentalization
About this book
This book proposes an integrated model of treatment for Personality Disorders (PDs) that goes beyond outdated categorical diagnoses, aiming to treat the general factors underlying the pathology of personality. The authors emphasize the development of metacognitive functions and the integration of procedures and techniques of different psychotherapies.
The book addresses the treatment of complex cases that present with multiform psychopathological features, outlining clinical interventions that focus on structures of personal meaning, metacognition and interpersonal processes.
In addition, this book:
- Provides an overview of pre-treatment phase procedures such as assessment interviews
- Explains the Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) approach and summarizes MIT clinical guidelines
- Outlines pharmacological treatment for patients with PDs
- Includes checklists and other useful resources for therapists evaluating their adherence to the treatment method
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Nicolò. Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he is founder of the Third Centre for Cognitive Psychotherapy and of the Italian School of Clinical Cognitivism (SICC) in Rome. He is Lecturer at University “Maria Santissima Assunta” (LUMSA) in Roma and Director of Mental Health and Addiction Department Rome 5. He is Professor at the School of Specialization in Cognitive Psychotherapy SPC and SICC, and in several schools of cognitive psychotherapy and European Past-President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He has written with Dimaggio, Semerari, Nicolò e Procacci Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders (Routledge, 2007) edited with Carcione and Procacci the Manuale di Terapia Cognitiva delle Psicosi [Manual of Cognitive Therapy of Psychoses] (Franco Angeli) and with Pompili Manual of territorial Psychiatry [Manuale di Psichiatria Territoriale ] (Pacini, 2013). He is author and co-author of several papers about personality disorders, psychosis and metacognition in particular.
Antonio Semerari. He is one of the most important Italian psychotherapists and one of the founders of the School of Cognitive Psychotherapy (SPC), of the Italian School of Clinical Cognitivism (SICC) and of the Third Centre of Cognitive Psychotherapy in Rome. He is Lecturer at University “G. Marconi” in Rome. He has written with Dimaggio, Carcione, Nicolò e Procacci Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders (Routledge, 2007), Storia, teorie e tecniche della psicoterapia cognitiva [History, theories and techniques of cognitive psychotherapy] (Laterza, 2001), with Carcione Il Narcisismo e i suoi Disturbi [The Narcissism and its Disorders] (Eclipsi /Erickson, 2017] and edited with Dimaggio I Disturbi di Personalità. Modelli e trattamento[Personality Disorders. Models and treatment] (Laterza, 2013). He is author and co-author of several papers about personality disorders, psychosis and metacognition in particular.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complex Cases of Personality Disorders
Book Subtitle: Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy
Editors: Antonino Carcione, Giuseppe Nicolo, Antonio Semerari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70455-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70454-4Published: 30 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70457-5Published: 01 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70455-1Published: 29 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychopathology