Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons
Subtitle: The Masterson Approach
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780876307861
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; The self, ego, identity, personality; Psychiatry - General; Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Treatment; Psychopathology - General; Mental Illness; Medical / Psychiatry; Object relations (Psychoanalysis); Object relations (Psychoanalys; Personality Disorders; Self psychology
First sentence: The evolution of the dynamic schizoid concept and the more specific diagnosis of the schizoid personality disorder (henceforth referred to as the schizoid disorder of the self) brings several questions to mind: 1. Is the concept of a schizoid disorder really a valid, discrete, and clinically useful construct, or might it not be equally well subsumed within the other broad dimensions of psychopathology?