Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City. He also directs the Laboratory of Experimental Psychopathology at SUNY/n-/Binghamton, where he conducts research and teaches on personality disorders, schizophrenia, schizotypy, and statistical methods. John F. Clarkin, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Psychology and Co-Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at New York/n-/Presbyterian Hospital. His academic writing and research have focused on the phenomenology of the personality disorders and the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder.

M.F. Lenzenweger, J.F. Clarkin, The Personality Disorders: History, Classification, and Research Issues. J.L. Pretzer, A.T. Beck, A Cognitive Theory of Personality Disorders. O.F. Kernberg, E. Caligor, A Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Disorders. L.S. Benjamin, Interpersonal Theory of Personality Disorders: The Structural Analysis of Social Behavior and Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy. B. Meyer, P.A. Pilkonis, An Attachment Model of Personality Disorders. A.L. Pincus, A Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory of Personality Disorders. T. Millon, S.D. Grossman, Personology: A Theory Based on Evolutionary Concepts. R.A. Depue, M.F. Lenzenweger, A Neurobehavioral Dimensional Model of Personality Disturbance.

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this title brings together in one volume the most important current perspectives on personality pathology. Chapters from leading experts have been extensively rewritten to reflect a decade's worth of significant theoretical, empirical, and clinical developments, and two entirely new chapters have been added.