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Psychoanalytic diagnosis : understanding personality structure in the clinical process / Nancy McWilliams.
Van Pelt Library RC489.T95 M38 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Typology (Psychology).
- Personality assessment.
- Personality development.
- Personality Disorders--diagnosis.
- Personality Assessment.
- Personality Disorders--therapy.
- Psychoanalytic Therapy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Personality Disorders--diagnosis.
- Personality Assessment.
- Personality Disorders--therapy.
- Psychoanalytic Therapy.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 426 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- McWilliams (applied and professional psychology, Rutgers U.) offers a guide for mental health practitioners and graduate students that overviews psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for clinical practice. She outlines a rationale for character diagnosis, influential psychoanalytic theories pertaining to character structure, individual differences that embody different maturational challenges, therapeutic implications, and how analytic theory provides tools for seeing patients as complex wholes, rather than collections of symptoms. In the second part, she focuses on major personality types and the clinical problems presented by patients of each, their drives, affect, and temperament; defensive and adaptive processes; early relational patterns; experiences of the self; differential diagnosis; and transference and countertransference. This edition incorporates advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma; covers the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis; and has new case examples, an expanded section on somatization, and a revised review of defenses. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Conceptual issues
- Why diagnose?
- Psychoanalytic character diagnosis
- Developmental levels of personality organization
- Implications of developmental levels of organization
- Primary defensive processes
- Secondary defensive processes
- Types of character organization
- Psychopathic (antisocial) personalities
- Narcissistic personalities
- Schizoid personalities
- Paranoid personalities
- Depressive and manic personalities
- Masochistic (self-defeating) personalities
- Obsessive and compulsive personalities
- Hysterical (histrionic) personalities
- Dissociative psychologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1609184947
- 9781609184940
- OCLC:
- 698580704
- Publisher Number:
- 99949622647
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