Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
Also known as Cognitive therapy of personality disorders, Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Third Edition, Beck, Freeman & Davis
Beck, Davis and Freeman's clinician handbook of CBT for personality disorders, 1990–2015
At a glance
What it argues
Traits grown too large, Learned, not hidden illness, Psychotherapy works for these disorders
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Surface thoughts first, schemas later, One chapter per disorder, The alliance is harder here …
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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide, Disarming the Narcissist, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder …
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Aaron Beck, Denise D. Davis and 8 others
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- Personality disorders are treated as overgrown versions of traits that began as adaptive, then became exaggerated over development.
- Cognitive therapy works first on automatic thoughts and later on the core beliefs stored as schemas.
- The third edition has chapters on twelve specific disorders, each built around clinical examples.
- It adds neural mechanisms, culture, the therapeutic alliance and DSM-5.
Why it matters
- For clinicians and trainees who know basic CBT and want to see how it changes when problems are lifelong; it is also where schema therapy's cognitive roots are easiest to see.
Key facts
- Editors
- Aaron T. Beck, Denise D. Davis, Arthur Freeman (third edition)1
- Published
- 1990; second edition 2004; third edition 2015 (hardcover October 2014)1
- Publisher
- Guilford Press1
- Pages
- 506 (third edition)1
- ISBN
- 9781462525812 (third edition, paperback); 9781593854768 (2004); 9780898624342 (1990)1
- Disorders covered
- 12 specific personality disorders, each in a chapter built around clinical examples1
- Audience
- Practitioners, students and researchers1
What it argues
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Traits grown too large2
Beck's model sees a personality disorder as a hypertrophy of traits that start in an adaptive context but become exaggerated and dominant over development.
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Learned, not hidden illness2
Like behaviour therapy before them, cognitive therapy and REBT treat symptoms as learned responses rather than the expression of an underlying conflict.
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Psychotherapy works for these disorders2
The overview chapter finds strong support for psychotherapy's efficacy and effectiveness in personality disorders.
Key ideas
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Surface thoughts first, schemas later2
Cognitive therapy usually works on automatic thoughts first and later on core beliefs, which are coded in the mind as schemas.
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One chapter per disorder1
Dependent, avoidant, obsessive–compulsive, depressive, paranoid, schizotypal, schizoid, passive–aggressive, narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial and borderline.
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The alliance is harder here1
A chapter by Denise D. Davis and Judith S. Beck covers the therapeutic alliance with these patients.
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New in 20151
Neural mechanisms of maladaptive schemas and modes, cultural diversity, co-occurring disorders, clinician self-care and DSM-5 criteria.
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Other CBT schools tested in trials2
The overview cites DBT as well validated for borderline personality disorder, and schema therapy beating transference-focused therapy for it (Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006).
Read next
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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Jeffrey Young's extension of these ideas into a full therapy for lifelong patterns.
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Wendy Behary, who wrote this book's narcissism chapter, for the people living with it.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Marsha Linehan's DBT manual, the other main CBT route for borderline personality disorder.
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Schema therapy vs transference-focused psychotherapy (2006)
The trial this book cites for schema therapy in borderline personality disorder.
Connections
Written by
- Aaron BeckPersonEditor; wrote the theory chapter
- Denise D. DavisEditor
- Arthur FreemanEditor
Related
- Wendy BeharyPersonwrote a chapter
- Arnoud ArntzPersonwrote a chapter
- Cognitive behavioral therapyTopicApplies cognitive therapy to personality disorders
- Schema therapyTopicDiscussed as a CBT treatment tested in trials for personality disorders
- Early maladaptive schemasTopicCore beliefs coded as schemas are the later target of therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapyTopicDiscussed as the best-validated CBT for borderline personality disorder
- Therapeutic allianceTopicA chapter on the alliance with patients with personality disorders
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