Psychoanalytic diagnosis
Subtitle: understanding personality structure in the clinical process
By: Nancy McWilliams
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781609184940
Subjects: Diagnosis; Typology (Psychology); Personality development; Personality assessment; Personality Assessment; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Therapy; Personality Disorders
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual issues; title: Why diagnose?; title: Psychoanalytic character diagnosis; title: Developmental levels of personality organization; title: Implications of developmental levels of organization; title: Primary defensive processes; title: Secondary defensive processes; title: Types of character organization; title: Psychopathic (antisocial) personalities; title: Narcissistic personalities; title: Schizoid personalities; title: Paranoid personalities; title: Depressive and manic personalities; title: Masochistic (self-defeating) personalities; title: Obsessive and compulsive personalities; title: Hysterical (histrionic) personalities; title: Dissociative psychologies.