Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments

by Frederick Rotgers PsyD, ABPP, Michael Maniacci PsyD (Editor)

Overview

Patients with antisocial personality disorder (APD) have traditionally been considered difficult ot treat, or even untreatable, with psychotherapy. Recent clinical and research developments, however, have begun to change this view. In this book. both experienced and novice clinicians will gain an understanding of the developments in this area of psychotherapy.

Rotgers and Maniacci present experts in the field of various models of treatment, among them Adlerian, biosocial-learning, motivational interviewing, Rogerian and psychopharmacological, to identify treatment goals, select assessment tools, conceptualize progression, pinpoint pitfalls, develop techniques, and move toward a successful therapeutic completion. By providing a brief overview of APD, discussing the ongoing controversies regarding the construct of APD, and assessing the responses to the same set of questions posed to each expert, the authors offers a glimpse into the difficult world of antisocial personality disorder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826155559
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/10/2005
Series:	Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological Disorders
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	412 KB

About the Author

Frederick Rotgers, PsyD, ABPP, has been a member of the Clinical Psychology faculty at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2002.

Michael Maniacci, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago. He has also taught at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.

Table of Contents

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Contributors

1. Antisocial Personality Disorder: An IntroductionF. Rotgers and M. Maniacci
2. The Case of Frank, Arthur Freeman
3. A Psychodynamic Approach, Debra Benveniste
4. Adlerian Psychotherapy, Michael Maniacci
5. Millonís Biosocial-Learning Perspective: Personologic Psychotherapy, Darwin Dorr
6. The Lifestyle Approach to Substance Abuse and Crime, Glenn D. Walters
7. The Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Approach, Arthur Freeman and Brian Eig
8. Dialectic Behavior Therapy, Robin A. McCann, Katherine Anne Comtois, and Elissa M. Ball
9. Motivational Interviewing, Joel I. Ginsberg, C.A. Farbring, and L. Forsberg
10. Integrating Psychotherapy and Medication, Sharon Morgillo-Freeman and John M. Rathbun
11. Antisocial Personality Disorder: Summary and Conclusions, Frederick Rotgers

Index

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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Eight different perspectives are applied to a common case of antisocial personality disorder. The writers leave the reader with hope and optimism in the treatment of this, the most difficult personality disorder. A landmark book in psychotherapy treatment that broadens the scope of just what is possible."
—Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University
"This book offers a welcome respite from therapeutic nihilism and, more important, is a basis for hope in treating men and women with an antisociali personality disorder."
—Stanton E. Samenow, PhD, author of Inside the Criminal Mind