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Cambridge University Press
The following review appeared in the August 2021 issue of CHOICE. The review is for your internal use only. Please review our Permission and Reprints Guidelines or email ChoiceHelp@ala.org.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Psychology
The new Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders, edited by Lejuez (Univ. of Kansas) and Gratz (Univ. of Toledo, Ohio), is a must-have for practitioners in the mental health field. Readers have come to expect cutting-edge work in the "Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology" series, and this latest work satisfies those expectations. Closely following changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), this handbook provides in-depth analysis of the etiology and treatment of challenging disorders. Three features of this work make it especially effective. First, every chapter includes an extensive commentary section presenting a back-and-forth dialogue among various experts in the field and the author(s) of the given chapter. Second, part 1 is entirely devoted to etiology (including the development of personality disorders in youth), with heavy emphasis on the contribution of neuroimaging. Third, the work presents a detailed look at the controversies and challenges arising in the course of attempting to classify and develop models for such disorders. All this groundwork is provided before specific material is presented on the individual disorders (or cluster disorders), including assessment and treatment summaries. The result is a well-documented look at personality disorders that anticipates potential or ongoing controversies about their etiology, diagnosis, or treatment.
--R. E. Osborne, Texas State University