| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) |
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Personality-guided psychology book series |
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Personality-guided psychology.
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| Contents |
I: Theoretical foundations -- Theoretical introduction -- Narcissistic personality disorder -- II: Devitalization : the unmirrored self (schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders) -- Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders -- A self psychological viewpoint : schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders -- III: Forestalling fragmentation (paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders) -- Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders -- A self psychological viewpoint : paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders -- IV: Alternative pathways for preserving a cohesive self (dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders) -- Descriptive psychopathology and theoretical viewpoints : dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders -- A self psychological viewpoint : dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders -- V: Other disorders of the self (depressive personality disorder, disorders of the self and somatic reactivity, and disavowal and the vertical split -- Depressive personality disorder -- Disorders of the self and somatic reactivity -- Disavowal : the vertical split |
| Summary |
"In this though provoking book, Marshall L. Silverstein applies a self psychological viewpoint, as formulated and broadened by Kohut, to understanding personality disorders. He recasts them as disorders of the self, grouping them into one of three patterns, centering on (a) combating devitalization, (b) forestalling fragmentation, or (c) seeking alternative pathways to a cohesive self. He describes each group, outlines its main theoretical viewpoints, and then offers a self psychological reformulation of how the behavior and symptom patterns represent deficits in self-cohesion. In the first deficit pattern, devitalization (in schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders), the patients central problem is maintaining vitality when the need for affirmation or admiration has been ignored or insufficiently acknowledged. In the second pattern (in paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and borderline personality disorders), patients harbor fears that their fragile self-cohesion may come undone. In the third pattern (in dependent, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders), patients attempt but often fail to develop compensatory structures to repair their chronically injured self-cohesion"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Personality disorders.
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Separation-individuation.
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Self psychology.
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Individuation (Psychology)
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Personality development.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Mental illness.
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Personality.
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Individuation
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Personality Disorders
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Self Psychology
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Psychological Phenomena and Processes
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Personality Development
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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Mental Disorders
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Personality
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Psychological Theory
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
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Psychoanalysis
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psychoanalysis.
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mental disorders.
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Psychoanalysis
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Personality development
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Personality
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Mental illness
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Individuation (Psychology)
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Personality disorders
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Self psychology
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Separation-individuation
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Persönlichkeitsstörung -- Selbstpsychologie.
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Selbstpsychologie -- Persönlichkeitsstörung.
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Persönlichkeitsstörung.
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Selbst -- Störung.
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Electronic book
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