Personality Disorder is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, the author seeks to adjust this imbalance and looks at the classification and treatment of personality disorder from the service users' viewpoint.

Heather Castillo is the Advocacy Service Manager for Colchester Mind. She has worked for twelve years in Mind Organisations in North East Essex, developing Advocacy for adults with mental health problems.

1. Dreaming of a better way. 2. A Historical perspective. 3. The disliked patient. 4. Personality development. 5. Complex post traumatic syndrome. 6. Treatability. 7. Is suffering an illness? 8. Getting our act together. 9. The task. 10. Demographics and themes. 11. What personality disorder means to us. 12. Experiences. 13. The moral career of the client. 14. The diagnostic straightjacket. 15. Spreading the word. 16. New beginnings. Index.