Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

Ranked #29 in Psychotherapy, Ranked #29 in Psychoanalysissee more rankings.

This is the first text to come along in many years that makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to beginning practitioners. The last book of its kind, which was published more than 20 years ago, predated the development of such significant concepts as borderline syndromes, narcissistic pathology, dissociative disorders and self-defeating personality.
Contemporary students often react with bewilderment to the language of pioneering analysts like Reich and Fenichel and, since 1980, the various volumes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
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