List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: personality disorder and the philosophy of psychopathology Peter Zachar and Konrad Banicki; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1. How personality disorder became an independent domain in psychopathology: a history Peter Zachar; 2. Ribot's novel approach to character pathology: from normal indecisiveness to the madness of doubt Jeanne Proust; 3. What can the dimensional model of personality disorders learn from Mischel's classical challenge to the trait theory of personality? Eisuke Sakakibara; Part II. Contemporary Approaches to Traditional Conceptual Perspectives: 4. The psychodynamic core of personality disorder: contemporary concepts and methods Mark Waugh; 5. Multiple roads to pathology: a complex systems perspective on personality disorders Angélique O. J. Cramer and Denny Borsboom; 6. A contemporary integrative interpersonal theory formulation of borderline and narcissistic pathology Aidan G. C. Wright and Sienna R. Nielsen; 7. The inflexible self and lived time: a phenomenological approach to personality disorders Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt and Thomas Fuchs; 8. Psychopharmacology and personality disorder: treatment or enhancement? Stefan Jerotic and Milutin Kostic; 9. When do personality traits become pathological? An epistemological and evolutionary view Simone Cheli and Martin Brüne; Part III. Novel Conceptual Approaches to Personality Disorder: 10. What does personality have to do with mental disorder? A cybernetic perspective Colin G. DeYoung and Robert F. Krueger; 11. Self-illness ambiguity in personality disorders: Is it me or my disorder (that makes me do X)? Roy Dings, Nina de Boer, Léon de Bruin and Gerrit Glas; 12. On personality dimensions and disorders: is a trait-based approach really the answer? Simon Boag; 13. A dual aspect approach to personality disorder: locating the normal in the abnormal Huw Green; 14. Network architectures of personality and its pathology Annemarie C. J. Köhne and Adela-Maria Isvoranu; 15. From Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be to radical acceptance and radical openness: or spiritually-based dialectical approaches to neurotic character Konrad Banicki; 16. Personality 'disorder' and the incapacity to self-regulate: answering practical and metaphysical questions Garson Leder and Tadeusz Zawidzki; Part IV. Exploring Negative Consequences of Diagnosing Personality Disorder: 17. Aversive and antagonistic personality disorder: a post-colonial analysis Grant Gillett and Armon J. Tamatea; 18. Right to be angry: affective injustice and borderline personality disorder Astrid Fly Oredsson and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Part V. Perspectives on Borderline and Narcissistic Personality: 19. How and why emptiness manifests in everyday life: borderline personality disorder and beyond Nancy Nyquist Potter; 20. Empathy deficits in the development and maintenance of narcissistic personality disorder Thomas Schramme; 21. Interaffectivity disturbances in narcissistic personality disorder Susi Ferrarello; 22. Narrative accounts of the self: differentiating narcissistic from non-narcissistic personalities Louise Williams.