Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines and multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, etiology, and treatment. The book brings together leading specialists in both fields, with a clinical focus on such topical issues as genetics, drug abuse, and childhood trauma-as they relate to each field and as they affect the relationship between the two disorders.

Therapists who treat eating disorders will find the material on treatment approaches especially helpful in formulating interventions with particularly difficult patients. Therapists who work with patients with personality disorders will find that the interface between personality and eating disorders is relevant to various aspects of self-destructive behavior observed in these individuals. This unique book enhances the assessment and treatment of individuals suffering from personality disorders and eating disorders, and it augments the understanding of both populations, while establishing a foundation for discussing each as they interface with one another.

CONTENTS:

Section I: Personality Conceptualization
1 – Personality Disorder Constructs and Conceptualizations

Section II: Epidemiology
2 – The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Those with Eating Disorders

Section III: Etiology
3 – The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Those with Eating Disorders
 Impulsivity Versus Compulsivity in Patients with Eating Disorders
4 – Childhood Trauma, Personality Disorders, and Eating Disorders

Section IV: Assessment
5 – Clinical Assessment of Personality Disorders
6 – Difficulties in the Assessment of Personality Traits and Disorders in Individuals with Eating Disorders

Section V: Personality Disorders Most Relevant to Eating Disorders
7 – Obsessive-Compulsive Personality and Eating Disorders
8 – Borderline Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders
9 – Avoidant Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders

Section VI: Treatment Approaches
10 – Treatment Strategies in the Obsessive-Compulsive Individual with an Eating Disorder
11 – A Self-regulation Treatment Approach for the Patient with an Eating Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
12 – Borderline Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders: An Eclectic Approach to Treatment
13 – The Treatment of Avoidant Personality Disorders in Patients with Eating Disorders
14 – The Use of Psychotropic Medications in Patients with Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders

Section VII: Outcome
15 – Prognostic Implications of Personality Disorders in Eating Disorders

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

Randy A. Sansone, MD, is a professor in the department of Psychiatry and the Department of Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, and the director of psychiatry education at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio. Dr. Sansone has authored more than 180 published papers, including 25 books chapters, is on the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and coedited with John L. Levitt and Leigh Cohn the book, Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders, Dynamics, Assessment, and Treatment. Mark: Note italics here

John L. Levitt, PhD, is the director of the Eating Disorders and Violence and Abuse Programs of Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. He has delivered more than 150 papers and workshop presentations locally and nationally, and is a coauthor of one book and doeditor of two other books, including Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders, Dynamics, Assessment, and Treatment with Randy Sansone and Leigh Cohn.He is alsoon the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.

REVIEWS:

“This outstanding book by two experts in the field provides very useful information for the practicing clinician…The description of treatment strategies is illuminating and fills a gap in our understanding of theses debilitating conditions.”
— Pauline S. Powers, M.D., Founding President of the Academy for Eating Disorders

“Dr. Sansone and Levitt…have fashioned a text that is scholarly and up-to-date yet accessible, and loaded with clinical wisdom for the practitioner. I recommend this book most highly to all of us who work with this patient population.”
— James E. Mitchell, M. D., Christoferson Professor and Chair, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences