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“The depth is impressive….Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.”

—Choice Reviews


“This edition is both timely and crucial to the continued advancement of the field….This book takes into account the whole person and does not get weighed down by the mere presence or absence of symptoms. It goes beyond the subjective nature of the disorder and truly makes clinicians think. Given the present state of the field, this book truly provides a missing piece of the therapeutic puzzle….No matter what your theoretical framework, this book and its ideas will work for you. Truly a mind-opening experience, and one which makes clinicians stop and think about their current therapeutic orientation. A must read for open-minded clinicians willing to go beyond the confines of the current diagnostic models. *****!”

—Doody's Review Service


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Table of Contents

Introduction, Vittorio Lingiardi & Nancy McWilliams

I. Adulthood

1. Personality Syndromes—P Axis, Nancy McWilliams & Jonathan Shedler

2. Profile of Mental Functioning—M Axis, Vittorio Lingiardi & Robert F. Bornstein

3. Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience—S Axis, Emanuela Mundo & John Allison O’Neil

II. Adolescence

4. Profile of Mental Functioning for Adolescents—MA Axis, Mario Speranza & Nick Midgley

5. Emerging Personality Patterns and Syndromes in Adolescence—PA Axis, Johanna C. Malone & Norka Malberg

6. Adolescent Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience—SA Axis, Mario Speranza

III. Childhood

7. Profile of Mental Functioning for Children—MC Axis, Norka Malberg & Larry Rosenberg

8. Emerging Personality Patterns and Difficulties in Childhood—PC Axis, Norka Malberg, Larry Rosenberg, & Johanna C. Malone

9. Child Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience—SC Axis, Norka Malberg & Larry Rosenberg

IV. Infancy and Early Childhood

10. Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood—IEC 0–3, Anna Maria Speranza & Linda Mayes

V. Later Life

11. Introduction to Part V, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin

12. Profile of Mental Functioning for the Elderly—ME Axis, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin

13. Personality Patterns and Syndromes in the Elderly—PE Axis, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin

14. Symptom Patterns in the Elderly: The Subjective Experience—SE Axis, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin

VI. Assessment and Clinical Illustrations

15. Assessment within the PDM-2 Framework, Sherwood Waldron, Robert M. Gordon, & Francesco Gazzillo

16. Clinical Illustrations and PDM-2 Profiles, Franco Del Corno, Vittorio Lingiardi, & Nancy McWilliams

Appendix. Psychodiagnostic Charts (PDCs)

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About the Editors

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Contributors

Robert F. Bornstein, PhD, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

Franco Del Corno, MPhyl, DPsych, President, Society for Psychotherapy Research— Italy Area Group, Italy

Francesco Gazzillo, PhD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Robert M. Gordon, PhD, ABPP, Institute for Advanced Psychological Training, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Vittorio Lingiardi, MD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Norka Malberg, PsyD, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut

Johanna C. Malone, PhD, Department of Psychiatry,'Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Linda Mayes, MD, Yale Child Study Center and Office of the Dean, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey

Nick Midgley, PhD, Research Department of Clinical Education and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emanuela Mundo, MD, Residency Program in Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

John Allison O’Neil, MD, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and St. Mary’s Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Daniel Plotkin, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Larry Rosenberg, PhD, Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut

Jonathan Shedler, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado

Anna Maria Speranza, PhD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Mario Speranza, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Versailles General Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France

Sherwood Waldron, MD, Psychoanalytic Research Consortium, New York, New York

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Audience

Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and mental health counselors.

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Course Use

May serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses.

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New to this edition:

• Significant revisions to all chapters, reflecting a decade of clinical, empirical, and methodological advances.
• Chapter with extended case illustrations, including complete PDM profiles.
• Separate section on older adults (the first classification system with a geriatric section).
• Extensive treatment of psychotic conditions and the psychotic level of personality organization.
• Greater attention to issues of culture and diversity, and to both the clinician's and patient's subjectivity.
• Chapter on recommended assessment instruments, plus reproducible/downloadable diagnostic tools.
• In-depth comparisons to DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM throughout.