Nancy McWilliams 
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis [EPUB ebook] 
Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

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This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy Mc Williams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient’s individual personality structure can influence the therapist’s focus and style of intervention. Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and using it to inform treatment. Highly readable, the book features a wealth of illustrative clinical examples.


 


New to This Edition


*Reflects the ongoing development of the author’s approach over nearly two decades.


*Incorporates important advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma.


*Coverage of the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis.


Winner–Canadian Psychological Association’s Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship

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Table des matières


Introduction


I. Conceptual Issues


1. Why Diagnose?


2. Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis


3. Developmental Levels of Personality Organization


4. Implications of Developmental Levels of Organization


5. Primary Defensive Processes


6. Secondary Defensive Processes


II. Types of Character Organization


7. Psychopathic (Antisocial) Personalities


8. Narcissistic Personalities


9. Schizoid Personalities


10. Paranoid Personalities


11. Depressive and Manic Personalities


12. Masochistic (Self-Defeating) Personalities


13. Obsessive and Compulsive Personalities


14. Hysterical (Histrionic) Personalities


15. Dissociative Psychologies


Appendix. Suggested Diagnostic Interview Format


A propos de l’auteur

Nancy Mc Williams, Ph D, ABPP, is Visiting Professor Emerita in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has a private practice in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition; Psychoanalytic Case Formulation; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; and Psychoanalytic Supervision; and is coeditor of Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second Edition. She is a past president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA), and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Mc Williams is also affiliated with the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of honors including the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; the Goethe Scholarship Award from the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association; the Rosalee Weiss Award from the Division of Independent Practitioners of the APA; the Laughlin Distinguished Teacher Award from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians; the Hans H. Strupp Award from the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society; and the International, Leadership, and Scholarship Awards from APA Division 39. Dr. Mc Williams is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Turin, Italy, and the Warsaw Scientific Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Her writings have been translated into 20 languages.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 426 ● ISBN 9781609184988 ● Taille du fichier 1.4 MB ● Maison d’édition Guilford Publications ● Publié 2011 ● Édition 2 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5060278 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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