Psychoanalytic Diagnosis / Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
- 1st
- 1994
- 400
A successful attempt to bring together the many strands of contemporary psychoanalytic investigation of the nature and psychotherapeutic treatment of character pathology. Introduction, Conceptual Issues, Why Diagnose?, Psychoanalytic Character Diagnosis, Developmental Levels of Personality, Clinical Implications of Developmental Levels of Organization, Primary (Primitive) Defensive Processes, Secondary (Higher-Order) Defensive Processes, Types of Character Organization, Psychopathic (Antisocial) Personalities, Narcissistic Personalities, Schizoid Personalities, Paranoid Personalities, Depressive and Manic Personalities, Masochistic (Self-Defeating) Personalities, Obsessive and Compulsive Personalities, Hysterical (Histrionic) Personalities, Dissociative Personalities, Appendix: Suggested Diagnostic Interview Format, References, Author and Subject Index.