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Personality Disorders and Culture: Clinical and Conceptual Interactions

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I'm giving this book 4 stars, as that's the current rating, and I don't want to drag the authors' work down with these remarks. Having said that, one might think that a book that "examines the role of culture in interpreting and explaining behaviors that resemble personality disorders but are, instead, normative to a given culture" deserves a chance to be read by practitioners in *non*-"given" -- presumably non-white, presumably non-wealthy -- cultures. This is not going to happen at Wiley's list price of $126.50. Which is a shame, in more ways than one. Perhaps such inequities could be some sort of clue to "Borderline Personality Disorder" as manifested outside our squeaky clean upper middle class suburbs, where people think nothing of shelling out 100+ bucks for a textbook. You think?

Drs. Alarcon, Foulks, and Vakkur have brought out some ideas that are ever more pertinent to the questions being asked today in light of recent domestic events. Well worth the time needed to read the arguments through.