This handbook is intended for clinicians with a range of
expertise who employ a psychodynamic orientation in the assessment
and/or treatment of patients with personality pathology. Well
documented and articulate, this manual is appropriate for everyone
from students of psychotherapy to experienced clinicians seeking to
refine their practice. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality
Disorders: A Clinical Handbook gathers in one place the
psychodynamic psychotherapy thinking on each of the Axis II
personality disorders. This includes the work of 22 contributing
writers in addition to the three primary authors, John F. Clarkin,
Ph.D., Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. The material
presented here is available elsewhere but, until now, not all in
one place.
The focus of the book is the psychodynamic conceptualization,
assessment, and treatment of the personality disorders as currently
described in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text
Revision (DSM-IV-TR). Included are 16 chapters in three sections:
Defining Personality Pathology, Treatment Approaches, and Research
for Future Directions. The background of models of personality and
its pathology comprises Section I. Section II contains chapters on
the treatment of specific personality disorder constellations.
These treatment chapters provide information on the relevant
empirical research, patient phenomenology and psychodynamics,
treatment strategies, and techniques, woven together with clinical
illustrations and vignettes. Section III includes a summary of the
existing treatment outcome research and a glimpse of the diagnostic
procedures in the near future. Each of the chapter authors has had
extensive clinical, and sometimes research, experience with the
assessment and treatment of one of the personality disorders
described.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A
Clinical Handbook is, as titled, a practical handbook and guide to
clinicians with real-world applications. - Every patient a
clinician treats has personality issues, if not a personality
disorder. This book provides strategies and techniques for
addressing personality issues- DSM-IV-TR is proceeding to DSM-V.
This collection of papers provides up-to-date information on how
the personality disorders will be handled in the upcoming DSM-V-
The authors provide summaries of key concepts and suggested
readings of particular value to residents and students in other
disciplines
The authors suggest that new research and reviews indicate, to
the surprise of many, that psychodynamic treatments are effective
for these personality disorders, and its impact is as great as,
that of cognitive-behavioral treatments.
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