Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process ISBN-13: 8601400008461

ISBN-13: 8601400008461

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Nancy McWilliams

Details: 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 patients individual personality structure can influence the therapists 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 authors 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 Associations Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship

Release Date: 14-07-2011

Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 9781609184940

Edition: 2nd

Number Of Pages: 426