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This book provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders. It references the 10th and 11th editions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10 and ICD-11). It allows the reader to compare categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications and consider a third—hybrid—classification, as advocated by several scholars. Laying down various diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, this book will appeal to clinical and forensic psychiatrists, psychologists, residents of psychiatry, and students of medicine and psychology.

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Elias Abdalla-Filho is a Brazilian psychiatrist and the current Secretary of the Forensic Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He has been working in psychiatry for 35 years, including in hospitals and private practice. He served as Head of the Forensic Psychiatry service at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Brasília for 20 years and was Coordinator of the Ethics and Legal Psychiatry Department of the Brazilian Psychiatry Association. He is currently a full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Brasília. He has published several scientific articles and edited numerous books and journals on forensic psychiatry.

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