Complex Cases of Personality Disorders

Chapter 1: The problem of diagnosis.- Chapter 2: The knowing of the mind.- Chapter 3: Metacognition as general factor of personality pathology.- Chapter 4: Treatment integration.- Chapter 5: Pre-treatment phase: the assessment interview and the diagnostic restitution.- Chapter 6: Therapeutic relationship.- Chapter 7: The Treatment.- Chapter 8: Monitoring and integration.- Chapter 9: Differentiation and decentering.- Chapter 10: The (almost) impossible cases.- Chapter 11: Group interventions: skills training.- Chapter 12: Pharmacological treatment for patients with personality disorders.- Chapter 13: A synthesis: The Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy.

Antonino Carcione. Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he is founder (and scientific director) of the Third Centre for Cognitive Psychotherapy and of the Italian School of Clinical Cognitivism (SICC) in Rome. He is Lecturer at University of L'Aquila and at the School of Specialization in Cognitive Psychotherapy SPC and SICC, and in several schools of cognitive psychotherapy and Past-President of the Italian Society of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (SITCC) and he is Vice-President of Society for Psychotherapy Research-Italy (SPR-Italy). He has written with Dimaggio, Semerari, Nicolò and Procacci Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders (Routledge, 2007) and with Semerari Il Narcisismo e i suoi Disturbi [The Narcissism and its Disorders] (Eclipsi /Erickson, 2017). He edited with Nicolò and Procacci the Manuale di Terapia Cognitiva delle Psicosi [Manual of Cognitive Therapy of Psychoses] (Franco Angeli). He is author and co-author of several papers about personality disorders, psychosis and metacognition in particular.

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