Nature and Nurture in Personality and Psychopathology - A Guide for Clinicians

This book reviews and integrates research showing that the key to understanding the development of mental disorders lies in interactions between genes and environment

List of contents

Introduction 1.Defining and Measuring Psychopathology 2. Personality and Psychopathology 3. What Genes Can and Cannot Tell Us 4. Neuroscience: Triumphs and Limitations 5. Childhood Adversities and Adult Functioning 6. Resilience: Surviving a Bad Childhood 7. Nature-Nurture Interactions 8. Problems with Causality 9. Implications for Psychotherapy 10. Implications for Prevention and Management

About the author

Joel Paris, MD, is a research associate at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and emeritus professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. He is the author of 25 books and over 200 scientific papers. His main area of research has been borderline personality disorder.

Summary

This book reviews and integrates research showing that the key to understanding the development of mental disorders lies in interactions between genes and environment

Product details

• Authors: Joel Paris, Joel (Mcgill University Paris, Paris Joel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2022
• EAN: 9780367741389
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74138-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Medical Genetics, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)