The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Distinguishes AvPD from social phobia, a related disorder that requires an entirely different therapeutic approach• Presents diagnostic criteria for therapists looking to make a correct diagnosis and for patients wanting to know if this is what's wrong with them—and what to do about it• Revises Dr. Kantor's earlier bookDistancing: Avoidant Personality Disorderwith a new infrastructure, expanded with new case histories, a new section on sexual avoidance, and a new self-help program for coping and overcoming AvPD• A resource section acts as a guide for therapists and a self-help manual for sufferers• A bibliography lists the basic literature on AvPD