Personality, personality disorder, and violence
- New York Wiley-Blackwell 2009
- xviii, 321p. ill.
- Wiley series in forensic clinical psychology .
Includes index
Personality, personality disorder and violence : an introduction / Mary Mcmurran -- The "functional link" between personality disorder and violence a critical appraisal / Conor Duggan & Richard Howard -- Traits : a systematic review of the relationship between childhood impulsiveness and later violence / Darrick Joliffe & David P Farrington -- The big 5 : neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness as an organisational scheme for thinking about aggression and violence / Vincent Egan -- Narcissism / Caroline Logan -- Subtypes of psychopath / Ronald Blackburn -- Antisocial personality disorder / Stephane de Brito, & Sheilagh Hodginssych -- The neurobiology of affective dyscontrol : implications for understanding "dangerous and severe personality disorder" / Richard Howard -- The processing of emotional expression information in individuals with psychopathy / James Blair -- Angry affect, aggression and personality disorder / Kevin Howells -- Attachment difficulties / Anthony Beech and Ian Mitchell -- Cognition psychopathic violence : a cognitive-attention perspective / Jennifer Vitale & Joseph Newman -- Social problem solving, personality disorder, and violence / Mary Mcmurran -- Criminal thinking / Glenn Walters.
New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Personality, Personality Disorder and Risk of Violence takes an evidence-based look at personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence, and makes links between the two.