**Meet the editor**

Professor Dr Gina Rossi obtained a PhD in Psychological Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is currently Associate Professor at the VUB, where she teaches courses on personality psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (Personality Psychology I, Personality Psychology II, Capita Selecta Personality Psychology), and Psychology at the Faculty

of Law and Criminology. She is also a lecturer in Postgraduate Education Programs, such as the Postgraduate 'Forensic Diagnostics & Counseling' at University College Lessius and the inter-university program 'Clinical Psychodiagnostics'. Her research focus is mainly in the domain of personality, especially personality psychopathology and personality assessment. In addition, she also has interest in forensic psychology. She has published her work in well-established journals such 'Journal of Personality Disorders', 'Journal of Personality Assessment', 'Criminal Justice and Behavior', etc. She is reviewer for several journals and consulting editor of 'Journal of Personality Assessment', 'International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology', and associate editor of 'Psychologica Belgica'.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Jillian Dorrian

Xavier Noël

**Section 2 Clinical Interventions 37** 

Chapter 3 **Utilizing Psychiatric Diagnosis** 

Fabrice Kwiatkowski

**Section 3 Depression 83** 

Chapter 5 **Mutual Regulation in the Context** 

A.M. Gardier and B.P. Guiard

Chapter 7 **New Approaches for the Therapy** 

Oguz Mutlu, Güner Ulak, Ipek Komsuoglu Celikyurt,

Füruzan Yıldız Akar and Faruk Erden

Chapter 1 **Alcoholism: The Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop 3** 

Chapter 2 **Alcoholism: An Impulsive/Disinhibition Disorder? 21** 

**and Formulation in the Clinical Process:** 

Graham Mellsop and Fiona Clapham Howard

Chapter 4 **Hypnosis in Cancer Patients: Can We Do Better? 53** 

Beth S. Russell and Molly Fechter-Leggett

Chapter 6 **Non-Response to Initial Antidepressant Therapy 85**  J.P. Guilloux, D.J. David, B.A. Samuels, I. David,

**of Treatment Refractory Depression 107** 

**Meeting the Needs and Expectations of Service Users 39** 

**of Inconsolable Crying: Promoting Tolerance to Distress 69** 

**Section 1 Alcoholism 1** 

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Füruzan Yıldız Akar and Faruk Erden

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Editing this book was a pleasant, but challenging job. I enjoyed reviewing chapters from different domains, bringing up-to-date empirical research studies, excellent literature reviews and controversial issues. This was an instructive experience for me and the authors. We both learned from each other, making different backgrounds a gain-gain situation, by evaluating each chapter critically from different perspectives. We are sure the reader will enjoy the end result: a selection of chapters from different psychology domains.

We start off with two papers on alcoholism. Dr. Dorrian discusses the self-reinforcing feedback loop, pointing out that a holistic, bio-psycho-social approach is necessary to address alcohol use disorders. Mr. Noël underlines the importance of impulsivity in predisposing and developmental factors in alcohol related disorders, bringing an overview of recent inhibition studies. Three papers concern issues relevant to clinical interventions. Dr. Mellsop and Howard introduce diagnoses and the clinical process, and stress the importance of contextualizing the diagnosis with thorough and reflective formulation to optimize the recovery plan. Dr. Kwiatkowski discusses the ongoing controversy on the positive effects of hypnosis and reviews the application in oncology. He concludes that hypnosis does help in psychosocial matters, but not for survival. Dr. Russell and Ms. Fechter-Leggett disentangle the mutual regulation dyad between parents and infants in the context of inconsolable crying. They are convinced of the benefits of dialectical behavior therapy in case of emotion dysregulation. The next chapters specifically focus on the treatment of depression. Dr. Guilloux, Dr. Samuels, Dr. David, Dr. Gardier, and Dr. Guiard show out that current SSRI antidepressant treatments are not sufficient, since the insensitivity of many patients. New methods, like triple reuptake inhibitors should be investigated more thoroughly. Dr. Mutlu, Dr. Ulak, Dr. Celikyurt, Dr. Akar, and Dr. Erden examine new approaches for the treatment of refractory depression. They conclude that nitric oxide synthase inhibitors are a promising approach.

Personality psychology is covered from two approaches. Dr. Mikołajczak-Degrauwe, Dr. Brengman, Dr. Wauters, and Dr. Rossi examine how personality affects compulsive buying. Issues are addressed on how the Big Five Personality model can be applied in this context. Dr. De Weerdt and Dr. Rossi investigate how emotional intelligence and psychopathology relate to each other. They approach emotional

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intelligence from a perspective integrating personal, emotional, and social competencies in coping successfully with life demands.

Next, the paper of Dr. Biggerstaff introduces qualitative research methods in psychology. She focuses on important concepts, the growing importance of these methods in the field, and strengths and limitations of these methods. This is followed by two practical applications. Dr. Gushin, and Dr. Yusupova analyse communication in space flights. They more specifically address issues of information exchange in longterm space flights. Dr. Lima reveals the connection between topic grounds or lexical worlds and themata from the theory of social presentations by an analysis using the ALCESTE algorithm. Finally, we bring some excellent chapters from social psychology. Ms. Dickel and Dr. Bohner demonstrate how theorizing on automatic associations and persuasion research can be integrated into the research of minority and majority influence on attitudes. Dr. Bocchiaro and Dr. Zamperini bring recent studies on the power of the situation in the context of conformity, obedience and disobedience. Dr. Klose and Dr. Lasser review which social psychological phenomena influence group decision making in an educational context. Dr. Dubois and Dr. Beauvois depart from an evaluative approach. They outline theory and applications related to the social value of persons. As such we have interesting blend of studies from experts from a diverse array of psychology fields. The selected chapters will take the reader on an exciting journey in the domains of psychology. I'm sure the content will appeal to a great audience!

> **Dr. Gina Rossi**  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
