Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides clinicians with the conceptual background and practical advice they need to use personality theory with patients who exhibit Severe Axis II Personality Disorders. Separate chapters focus directly on the needs of Schizoid, Avoidant, Depressive, Schizotypal, Borderline, and Paranoid Personality Patterns.
Trade Review"…deals with the more severely impaired patients such as those with borderline personality disorder….excellent examples of the Millonian writing style that will be familiar to his many readers…highly structured, well organized, yet quite readable, offering well-reasoned logic as well as wonderful case examples. The descriptions of the various personality disorders and their subtypes must compete for the absolute best characterizations of those disorders available in the clinical literature. Those descriptions alone are worth the price of these paperback books." (
PsycCRITIQUES, 7/30/08)
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Part One
CHAPTER 1 Personalized Psychotherapy: A Recapitulation 3
Part Two
CHAPTER 2 Personalized Therapy for the Retiring/Schizoid Personality Patterns 51
CHAPTER 3 Personalized Therapy for the Shy/Avoidant Personality Patterns 85
CHAPTER 4 Personalized Therapy for the Pessimistic/Depressive Personality Patterns 123
CHAPTER 5 Personalized Therapy for the Aggrieved/Masochistic Personality Patterns 159
CHAPTER 6 Personalized Therapy for the Eccentric/Schizotypal Personality Patterns 195
CHAPTER 7 Personalized Therapy for the Capricious/Borderline Personality Patterns 225
CHAPTER 8 Personalized Therapy for the Suspicious/Paranoid Personality Patterns 271
References 313
Index 335
