Disorders of the Self
Subtitle: A Personality-guided Approach (Personality-Guided Psychology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); American Psychological Association
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781591474302
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Psychiatry; Psychopathology - General; Psychology; Separation-individuation; Personality; Personality disorders; Self psychology
Description: "In this book, Marshall L. Silverstein applies a self psychological viewpoint, as formulated and broadened by Kohut, to understanding personality disorders. He recasts them as disorders of the self, grouping them into one of three patterns, centering on (a) combating devitalization, (b) forestalling fragmentation, or (c) seeking alternative pathways to a cohesive self. He describes each group, outlines its main theoretical viewpoints, and then offers a self psychological reformulation of how the behavior and symptom patterns represent deficits in self-cohesion."--Jacket.