Close
(0) items
You have no items in your shopping cart.
All Categories
    Filters
    Preferences
    Search

    Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

    €47.50
    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.
    ISBN: 9781462543694
    AuthorMcWilliams, Nancy (Rutgers University, U
    SubAuthor1Shedler, Jonathan
    SubAuthor2Wallin, David J.
    SubAuthor3Slochower, Joyce
    Pub Date17/04/2020
    BindingPaperback
    Pages426
    AvailabilityCurrently out of stock. If available, delivery is usually 5-10 working days.
    Edition2nd New ed
    Availability: Out of Stock

    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

    Write your own review
    • Only registered users can write reviews
    *
    *
    • Bad
    • Excellent
    *
    *
    *

    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