Antisocial Personality Disorder - A Practitioner's Guide...

The therapy of patients with disorders of character or personality has been discussed in the clinical literature since the beginning of the recorded history of psychotherapy. Literature on the psychotherapeutic treatment of specific personality disorders has emerged more recently and is growing quickly. The main theoretical orientation in the psychotherapeutic literature on treatment of personality disorders has been psychoanalytic (e.g., Kernberg, 1975; Masterson, 1978; Reid, 1978). Psychoanalytic writers have produced a rich literature on treatment of these patients for more than 30 years.