Neurotic styles
By: David Shapiro ; [with a new preface by the author].
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Neuroses.; Neurotic Disorders.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. With a New Preface by the Author. 
Basic Books, A member of the Perseus Books Group.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents l ix; title: Acknowledgments l vii; title: Preface l xi; title: Chapter 1 Introduction l 1; title: Chapter 2 Obsessive-Compulsive Style l 23; title: Rigidity; title: The Mode of Activity and the Distortion of the Experience of Autonomy; title: The Loss of Reality; title: Chapter 3 Paranoid Style l 54; title: Formal Qualities of Suspicious Thinking and Cognition; title: The Paranoid Loss of Reality; title: The General Paranoid Problem of Autonomy; title: Projection: Noncognitive Aspects; title: The Relationship between Paranoid and Obsessive-Compulsive Styles; title: Chapter 4 Hysterical Style l 108; title: Repression and the Hysterical Style of Cognition; title: Hysterical Romance and Fantasy; title: Hysterical Emotions; title: Chapter 5 Impulsive Styles l 134; title: The Subjective Experience of "Impulsive"; title: The Quality of Impulsive Action; title: The Impulsive Mode of Cognition; title: Chapter 6 Impulsive Variants l 157; title: Some Psychopathic Traits; title: The Passive, "Weak" Character; title: Chapter 7 General and Theoretical Considerations l 176; title: The Initial Organizing Configuration; title: Instinctual Drives and Style Development; title: The Control and Regulative Function of Styles; title: Style and Defense; title: The Defensive Motives for Neurotic Styles; title: Index l 201