Description: This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient's individual personality structure can influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and using it to inform treatment. Highly readable, the book features a wealth of illustrative clinical examples. New to This Edition*Reflects the ongoing development of the author's approach over nearly two decades.*Incorporates important advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma.*Coverage of the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis.*A number of the case examples are entirely new. Introduction I. Conceptual Issues 1. Why Diagnose? 2. Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis 3. Developmental Levels of Personality Organization 4. Implications of Developmental Levels of Organization 5. Primary Defensive Processes 6. Secondary Defensive Processes II. Types of Character Organization 7. Psychopathic (Antisocial) Personalities 8. Narcissistic Personalities 9. Schizoid Personalities 10. Paranoid Personalities 11. Depressive and Manic Personalities 12. Masochistic (Self-Defeating) Personalities 13. Obsessive and Compulsive Personalities 14. Hysterical (Histrionic) Personalities 15. Dissociative Psychologies Appendix. Suggested Diagnostic Interview Format
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Book Title: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understa
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 426 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Psychology
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 730 g
Type: Textbook
Author: David J. Wallin, Nancy Mcwilliams, Joyce Slochower, Jonathan Shedler
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
