Errant selves
Subtitle: a casebook of misbehavior
By: edited by Arnold Goldberg
Contributors: Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-
Publisher: Analytic Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Compulsive behavior -- Case studies; Psychology, Pathological -- Case studies; Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of behavior disorders.

Guided by the self-psychological framework developed by Arnold Goldberg in Being of Two Minds, the contributors to this volume explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and addiction in which the misbehavior at issue served primarily to ward off painful affects or states of dysphoria in order to achieve a basic integrity of the self. For these patients, the pathway to self-cohesion entailed the florid acting out typical of narcissistic behavior disorders."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214) and index