Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nancy McWilliams, Jonathan Shedler, David J. Wallin, Joyce Slochower, McWilliams Nancy
• Edition: GUILF
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 31.12.2020
• Catégorie: Livres de conseils > Santé; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychanalyse
• EAN: 9781462543694
• ISBN: 978-1-4625-4369-4
• Dimensions (emballage): 15,3 x 22,8 x 2,6 cm
• Catégories: PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, clinical interviewing, Psychotherapy Supervision, defence mechanisms, personality organisation;defence mechanisms;clinical interviewing;relational psychoanalysis;affect regulation;psychotherapy supervision;advanced character assessment in therapy, relational psychoanalysis, affect regulation, advanced character assessment in therapy