The Neuroses and Personality Disorders Book

List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Concepts, Assessments, and Treatments; Section 1. Concepts and Classifications. Aetiology: 1. Classification; 2. Aetiological factors more relevant for adult disorders; 3. Aetiological Factors of Special Relevance to childhood disorders; Section 2. Methods of Interview and Assessment: 4. The assessment of neurotic and personality disorders in adults; 5. Clinical assessment of the emotionally disturbed child and his family; 6. Clinical assessment of the mentally handicapped child and his family; 7. Psychological testing; Section 3. Principles of Treatment in the Neuroses and Personality Disorders: 8. Methods of treatment; 9. Treatment settings; 10. The therapeutic team; 11. Forensic aspects; Part II. Disorders Specific to Childhood; Section 4. Disorders Specific to Childhood: 12. The pre-school child; 13. The school child; Part III. Neurotic States, Sexual Disorders, and Drug Dependence; Section 5. Minor Affective Disorders: 14. Depressive syndromes; 15. Anxiety neurosis; Section 6. Hysteria: 16. Childhood signs of hysterical personality disorder and of hysterical conversion syndromes: hysterical conversion symptoms in childhood; 17. Hysteria; 18. The hysterical (histrionic) personality; 19. The impact of parents with hysterical personalities on their children; Section 7. Obsessional Disorders: 20. Childhood origins of obsessional disorders, stereotyped behaviour, tics and Tourette's syndrome, and stuttering; 21. Obsessional illness and personality; 22. The impact of obsessional parents on their children; Section 8. Patients Presenting with Bodily Complaints and Disturbances: 23. Psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry; 24. Chronic pain: the role of the psychiatrist; 25. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; 26. Obesity; 27. Premenstrual syndrome; 28. Endocrine disorders; 29. Skin disorders and dermatitis artefact; 30. Hypochondriasis; 31. Sick role and illness behaviour in children; Section 9. Sexual Disturbances and Deviation: 32. Sexual problems; 33. Homosexuality; 34. Transvestism, transsexualism, and exhibitionism; 35. Incest (child referred to psychiatrist); Section 10. Alcoholism, Drug Dependance, Gambling: 36. Childhood antecedents of alcoholism and drug dependence; 37. Alcoholism; 38. The impact of alcoholic parents of their children; 39. Gambling; Part IV. Personality Disorders; Section 11. Sociopathic Personality: 40. The childhood origins of delinquency and antisocial behaviour; 41. Sociopathic (psychopathic) personality in the adult; 42. The impact of sociopathic and inadequate parents on their children (including child abuse); Section 12. The 'Inadequate Personality': 43. The 'inadequate personality'; 44. Child sexual molestation; References; Cross-references to other volumes in the series; Author index; Subject index.