(P/B) SEVERE PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Παρουσίαση

In this important book, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts provides the clinician with tools to diagnose and treat severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. Dr. Kernberg not only describes techniques he has found useful in clinical practice but also further develops theories formulated in his previous work and critically reviews other recent contributions. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One Diagnostic Considerations
1 Structural Diagnosis
2 The Structural Interview
3 Differential Diagnosis in Adolescence
4 Personality Disorders in Old Age
5 Problems in the Classification of Personality Disorders
Part Two Treatment of Borderline Personalities
6 Expressive Psychotherapy
7 Transference Management in Expressive Psychotherapy
8 Expressive Psychotherapy with Adolescents
9 Supportive Psychotherapy
10 Indications and Contraindications for Psychoanalytically Based Treatment Modalities
Part Three Narcissistic Personalities: Clinical Theory and Treatment
11 Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Narcissism
12 Technical Strategies in the Treatment of Narcissistic Personalities
13 Character Analysis
14 Self, Ego, Affects, and Drives
Part Four Severe Regressions: Diagnosis and Treatment
15 Stalemates in Treatment
16 Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Patients with Suicide Potential
17 Countertransference, Transference Regression, and the Incapacity to Depend
18 Clinical Aspects of Severe Superego Pathology
19 Paranoid Regression and Malignant Narcissism
Part Five Hospital Treatment
20 Contrasting Philosophies of Hospital Treatment for Severe Psychopathology
21 The Therapeutic Community Model of Hospital Treatment for Severe Psychopathology
22 Long-Term Hospital Treatment of Severe Borderline and Narcissistic Pathology
References
Index