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Title: Abnormalities of Personality: Within and Beyond the Realm of Treatment by Michael H., M.D. Stone ISBN: 0-393-70127-1 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A compendium of abnormalities
Comment: It is rare to find a scholarly textbook which contrasts orthodox points of view with heterodoxy. Stone seeks to debunk myths regarding the etiology of disorders and the omnipotence of treatment modalities. He also, mercifully, refocuses on the patient (client), his personality, and his presenting traits - rather than on the nebulous and abstract construct of "personality disorder". Though somewhat outdated clinically - it relies on the DSM-III-R published in 1987 - it is still a refreshing new look at the topic, a decade after its publication. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".

Rating: 4
Summary: This is a classic.
Comment: I'm writing this review because the only other customer review gave it a one star rating. Clearly, the book did not meet that reviewer's needs.

I do, however, want to alert graduate students and teachers and mental health professionals to Stone's book. Published in 1993, it is now far too old to be a primary text on personality disorders. And the fact that it uses DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria makes it even less palatable to students.

But I thought that the book was superb when it was published, and I still recommend it to graduate students in clinical psychology for its discussion of psychopathy and of personality traits that are difficult to treat.

Graduate students in clinical psychology should first learn about Robert Hare's work on psychopathy, but Stone's book is a great resource.

Rating: 1
Summary: Mental disorder with personalities changes.
Comment: I have a friend that her daughter has MPD switiching into seven defferent people within their own mood changes, good and bad. Would like to know how commom is this disease?Would like to know more about the MPD. Whom to talk to, Doctors, hypnotherist, whomever that can give some insight on MPD Thank You John

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