Description
Book SynopsisThis influential work helps clinicians resolve questions of overlap among diagnostic categories, offers specific and sensible suggestions for treatment interventions, and describes common transference problems in therapy.
Trade Review"Impressive ... unequalled in terms of its scientific rigor, clinical penetration, comprehensiveness ... This book will have a powerful impact on psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the coming years ... a superb accomplishment." - Hans H. Strupp PhD (on the first edition)
Table of ContentsI. Basic Concepts
1. Introduction and Overview
2. History and Assumptions of the Approach
3. The Harmonics of Therapy
4. The Interviewing and Treatment Methods
II. DSM Cluster B, the Dramatic, Erratic Group
5. Borderline Personality Disorder
6. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
7. Histrionic Personality Disorder
8. Antisocial Personality Disorder
III. DSM Cluster C, the Anxious, Fearful Group9. Dependent Personality Disorder
10. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
11. Negativistic Personality (Disorder): Personality Disorder, NOS
12. Avoidant Personality Disorder
IV. DSM Cluster A, the Odd, Eccentric Group
13. Paranoid Personality Disorder
14. Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders
V. Divergences
15. Category Overlap, Residual Categories, and Other Issues
Appendix: Summary of Diagnostic and Differential
Indicators
