Psychotic Organisation Of The Personality

Author : Antonio Perez-Sanchez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429882246
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychotic Organisation of the Personality written by Antonio Perez-Sanchez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors. An important role is granted to psychic pain as the cornerstone of psychopathology, and particularly to the psychotic patient's difficulties in dealing with it. Bion's distinction between "feeling psychic pain and suffering it" is considered an indicator when evaluating the patient's ability to cope with psychoanalytic treatment. The author's experience with a schizophrenic patient is related in detail, offering a view of the patient and her relationship with the analyst from various different angles, and showing how the psychoanalytic method can be used to treat psychosis.

Author : Nancy McWilliams
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462543693
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition written by Nancy McWilliams and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams 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

Author : Leon Joseph Saul
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychotic Personality written by Leon Joseph Saul and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134858027
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychic Retreats written by John Steiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change. These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats', into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality. To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts, the author builds on more established ideas such as Klein's distinction between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and briefly reviews previous work on pathological organizations of the personality. He illustrates his discussion with detailed clinical material, with examples of the way psychic retreats operate to provide a respite from both paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxieties. He looks at the way such organizations function as a defence against unbearable guilt and describes the mechanism by which fragmentation of the personality can be reversed so the lost parts of the self can be regained and reintegrated in to the personality. Psychic Retreats is written with the practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.

Author : David Rosenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429921969
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychotic written by David Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality presents the results of the author's many years of experience as an analyst working with deeply disturbed or psychotic patients, and demonstrates how the deeply resulting clinical and theoretical formulations may additionally be applied to less disturbed patients. Dealing with the theory and clinical treatment of the psychotic aspects of the personality, includes a review of the literature and a rich array of clinical material to illustrate the author's technical approach. A chapter devoted to the survivors of concentration camps shows how the concept of encapsulated autistic nuclei leads to new diagnostic and technical procedures, while a further paper discusses the psychotic difficulties attending heart-transplant surgery. Further essays illuminate the importance of the accurate detection and the use of the countertransference and the significance of the supervisor's supportive role in severe cases.

Author : National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher : Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISBN 13 : 9781854334770
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borderline Personality Disorder written by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) and published by Royal College of Psychiatrists. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out clear recommendations for healthcare staff on how to diagnose and manage young people and adults who have borderlin personality disorder, in order to significantly improve their treatment and care. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the evidence on which the recommendations are based.

Author : Paulina F. Kernberg
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724080
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personality Disorders In Children And Adolescents written by Paulina F. Kernberg and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it. Kernberg and her colleagues elucidate assessment criteria and advance therapeutic approaches for each disorder.

Author : Mark D. Kelland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757579936
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personality Theory in a Cultural Context written by Mark D. Kelland and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas A. Widiger
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN 13 : 9781433811661
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personality Disorders and the Five-factor Model of Personality written by Thomas A. Widiger and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the second edition of this authoritative text was published in 2002, the research base supporting the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality disorder has more than quadrupled. As a result, the vast majority of this volume is new.

Author : Dragan M. Svrakic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190884592
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragmented Personality written by Dragan M. Svrakic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragmented Personality introduces a new model for diagnosing and caring for patients with personality disorder. This book reviews in detail the neuroscience of brain and mind development, including the neuroscience of psychoanalytic concepts, both for normal and disordered personalities. In contrast to the current static classifications of personality pathology, the authors' approach yields a dynamic and personalized diagnosis within a 3D diagnostic space in which each individual is uniquely positioned. In this model, two intersecting dimensions, one vertical, representing the person's qualitative level of mental functioning (the "how" of personality), and the other horizontal, representing his or her adaptive style (the "what" of personality) are cross matched in the unit of time. Such dynamic nosology is inherently sensitive to fluctuations in mental functioning over time and context, and gives the clinician precise milestones for monitoring progress in therapy. In this book, the authors analyze the impact of social transitions on adaptive tasks, personality and psychopathology. They argue that the conservative society, with strict socio-religious norms, favored the psychopathology of neuroses centered around guilt, including guilt for not fitting the preapproved norms. With the postmodern liberalization of normative pressures, the adaptive task has changed from "how to fit" into "what to choose" among many accepted alternatives, creating uncertainty of identity. This uncertainty, together with the non-directive society, favors the psychopathology of personality disorder, and indeed, the prevalence of personality disorder has increased in the postmodern period. Drs. Svrakic and Divac-Jovanovic argue that fragmented personality, a deep and early fragmentation of the mind at its nonconscious core of internalized object relations, represents a common denominator shared by all clinical variants of personality disorder. They conceptualize personality disorder as a homeostatic attempt by the fragmented early mind to heal itself by self-organizing into an unrealistic and fantasized but a more stable self-image, figuratively a "better any than no organization" strategy. In this invaluable text, the authors provide detailed practical guidelines for the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of individuals with personality disorder and answer practical questions that clinicians frequently ask about etiology, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy of the syndrome.