Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
By Nancy McWilliams | Publisher: Guilford Publications
About the book
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.
Editions of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781609184940
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781462543694
- EBook
- ISBN 9781609184988
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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 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.
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What is Psychoanalytic Diagnosis about?
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
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Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints > Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Psychoanalytic Diagnosis?
Nancy McWilliams
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Psychoanalytic Diagnosis is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781609184940) and paperback(ISBN 9781462543694) and ebook(ISBN 9781609184988)
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