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This book clearly and accessibly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention.
Introduction. a comment on terminology. a comment on tone. part i. conceptual issues. why diagnose? psychoanalytic character diagnosis. developmental levels of personality organization. clinical implications of developmental levels of organization. primary (primitive) defensive processes. secondary (higher-order). part ii. types of character organization. psychopathic (antisocial) personalities. narcissistic personalities. schizoid personalities. paranoid personalities. depressive and manic personalities. masochistic (self-defeating). obsessive and compulsive personalities. hysterical (histrionic) personalities. dissociative personalities. appendix: suggested diagnostic interview format. references. author index. subject index. this book clearly and accessibly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. an excellent introduction for students of psychoanalytic diagnostic thinking, this book clearly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patients's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. eschewing the dense jargon that often discourages beginning therapists, the book is engagingly written and includes numerous vig*n*e*t*tes that bring concepts to life. psychoanalytic diagnosis will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychologists, and clinical therapists. it is ideal for beginning therapists and students of psychotherapy and psychology. (Hardback) 
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 398 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 
(398 pages) this book clearly and accessibly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. illustrations (Hardback) 
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This book clearly and accessibly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. 
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Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. This is the first text to come along in many years that makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to beginning practitioners. The last book of its kind, which was published more than 20 years ago, predated the development of such significant concepts as borderline syndromes, narcissistic pathology, dissociative disorders, and self-defeating personality. Contemporary students often react with bewilderment to the language of pioneering analysts like Reich and Fenichel and, since 1980, the various volumes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have reflected an empirical descriptive orientation that deliberately eschews psychodynamic assumptions. Consequently, today's therapist in training may have little exposure to the rich clinical and theoretical history behind each disorder mentioned in DSM; to psychoanalytic expertise with widely recognized character patterns not mentioned in DSM, such as depressive and hypomanic psychologies, high-functioning schizoid personalities, and hysterical personalities; or to a comprensive, theoretically sophisticated rationale that links assessment to treatment. Filling the need for a text that clearly lays out the conceptual heritage that psychoanalytic practitioners take for granted, this important new volume explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Dispensing with the dense jargon that often discourages people from learning, Nancy McWilliams writes in a lucid, personal manner that demystifies psychodynamic theory andpractice. Numerous clinical vignettes are presented with humor, candor, and compassion, bringing abstract concepts to life. Comprehensive in 
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 398 p. Contains: Illustrations. 