Avoidant Personality Disorder: The Ultimate Guide to Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention (Personality Disorders) Kindle Edition

I am formally diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD). I fit all the DSM qualifying criteria to a tee. I have read books by Millon (x5), Benjamin (x2), Young (x2), Linehan, Kantor, Beck et al on personality disorders, as well as various other less informed and less directed authors. I met with 25 psychochologists/psychiatrists inside and outside hospitals, and had hundreds of counselling sessions - all on this topic. In addition, I have analysed and obsessed over this topic for many years in an effort to get relief from the chronic and severe dysfunction I have.This book touts itself as "The Ultimate Guide". This is utterly untrue. It is, at best, "A First Introduction" - I personally gained nothing from it. The book is 68 pages of large print, double spaced on small pages. It can be read and fully absorbed in well under an hour. It has just 2 references - both come from a single website. The contents of the book itself are representative of this dearth of research. It consists of generalities again and again. For example at one stage it says something like "your therapy may be once or twice a week, or more or less than this". This statement is near meaningless - it covers all possibilities! Unfortunately the book itself is like this throughout - covering all possibilities, not ruling anything in or out, and not making any insight. Where it does make a good suggestion, this is happened on by chance in a list of possibilities. There is no indication the author knows the "good" from the "bad".The book was cheap - it cost me something like $12. Although it has no insights, I can see it as having merit for someone who is completely unfamiliar with personality disorders and clinical psychology. It reviews the diagnostic criteria (albeit symptoms, not underlying causes), and presents various options for treatment that have been touted that the beginner can then read more about from more informed sources.For me, "The Ultimate Guide" remains Lorna Smith Benjamin, whose books provided enormous insight into my personality disorder (and effective treatement) far beyond any other source I have encountered (either in print or in person). Her books, however, are not aimed for the lay reader. To appreciate them fully a lot of groundwork needs to be done in terms of learning about all the 14 officially-recognised personality disorders in terms of the personality modes that we use everyday. I don't know of a good single source for this. However I can say Martin Kantor's earlier book, although flawed and disordered, has many excellent concrete examples of AvPD. So, for those wishing to absorb about how AvPD looks like in real life, this is one place to try next.

I bought this book because my son has APD and it was recommended by our therapist. I have found the information as presented to be easy to quickly digest and useful. My son and I have struggled with his APD behavior for years, neither of us fully understanding his challenges. Through therapy and education like this book we have made a lot of progress. I wish I had bought it sooner. It goes beyond summaries I've read on the internet, not only describing what APD is, but also typical treatments and pros and cons. This is more of an APD 101 type of book, a good place to start, but also a good book to have around for reference.

This book is a good introduction to Avoidant Personality Disorder. The cover says it is the "Ultimate Guide". It is not an "Ultimate Guide". It is an introduction to the topic. It is a very short, easy to read, simple, walk through what the problem is, what causes it and how to overcome it. This is the first book I have read on the subject and I found it helpful.

More accurately titled One Regular Guy's Rambling Theories about Avoidant Personality Disorder. Totally uncited, uninformative, and unhelpful plus double spaced and huge type to fill up pages. Save your money.

Very poorly written pamphlet. The author has no experience in this field. I found much better information on this topic on Wikipedia. Do not order!

This book was very helpful in understanding avoidant personality disorder. I understand myself better after reading it. Good suggestions for help.

I was originally interested in this topic because of a psychology class I took. I found the book very informative as I read it, and began to realize that some one in my family may very well be suffering from Avoidant Personality Disorder. One of my sisters rarely leaves the house, and there have been several times when we have gotten her outside that she has had a full on panic attack. I read through this book to learn as much about this condition as I could so that I could help her through these problems and help the rest of my family understand what was going on with her. This book has been a life saver for my family and I, and if your in a situation where you know someone who may have this condition I recommend reading it, it can make a difference in your lives as well.

While I do not personally have Avoidant Personality Disorder, someone very close to me does – and I want to learn more about it; what it really is, how it affects her, how it could affect us, and how to overcome it – if such a thing even possible.Clayton Geoffreys’s “Avoidant Personality Disorder” guide offers vital and invaluable insight into this often misunderstood disorder. Avoidant Personality Disorder, also known as AvPD is more than just one thing, in fact, the title encompasses a range of disorders – and this guide talks about them all. From what they are, what defines them, what causes it and common symptoms. There is information to be had in here for anyone that deals with AvPD or knows someone with it.With easy to understand language and open examples, this guide left me with a feeling of, not only understanding – but of hope. There are things we can do, steps to take - and a new path to travel.

some useful information but the research base seems very slight (one paper as far as I could gather). Practically all the information in this slim volume can be obtained from the internet very easily. Not worth the purchase in my opinion.

A very thin book written by someone who seems to be pre-occupied with on-line escapism - is this the author or someone he knows? Amateurish and not an Ultimate Guide by any means.

This book is exactly what I want to read and recommend to my son to read because of what his wife (my daughter-in-law) is behaving.In the book it gives a lot of helpful information.

Junk publishing by someone with no expertise.

Very little information. Not written by a specialist. Same data easily found on the internet.