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This collection of papers renews long-standing proposals for incorporating a dimensional model of personality disorder within the next DSM. It describes alternative models, addresses questions regarding their clinical application and utility, and suggests that future research seek to integrate such models within a common hierarchical structure.
This book offers practical guidance for assessing the amenability of patients to psychotherapy. By focusing on which patients are likely to respond well to therapeutic intervention and which will prove most resistive, the book can assist clinicians in determining with what kinds of patients will most likely succeed.
It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.
This book is based on more than a decade of Dr. Allen's experience conducting educational groups for persons struggling with psychiatric disorders stemming from trauma. Readers will gain essential knowledge to embark on the process of healing from the complex wounds of trauma, along with a guide to current treatment approaches.
This book provides a brief, disciplined technique for mobilizing and learning from an individual's capacity to concentrate. Putting to rest both exaggerated fears about hypnosis and overblown statements of its efficacy, this compelling volume brings scientific discipline to a systematic exploration of the clinical uses and limitations of hypnosis.
This book provides an overview of theory and technique that gives the reader a detailed account of how countertransference is used in contemporary practice. It shows the usefulness of examining countertransference issues in a wide range of psychiatric settings, including pharmacotherapy, consultation-liaison settings, and forensic facilities.
This text examines psychiatry and the cinema. It looks at the typology, mythology, and ideology of the psychiatry in movies. It also examines psychoanalytic film criticism and such issues as narcissm in the cinema, and phallic women in contemporary cinema.
A complete overview of the rising epidemic of sexually aggressive behaviour among adolescents. A comprehensive approach to the assessment and diagnosis of the adolescent sexual offender, Sexual Aggression is the most current, integrated approach on this topic today.
