The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder by Martin Kantor Md

The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder by Martin Kantor Md

Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers. Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) is an extremely widespread, devastating disorder that generally goes unrecognized or misrepresented by what little scientific literature there is on the topic. Therapists are left mystified about how to diagnose and treat it, and patients and other sufferers are at a loss as to what is wrong and how to go about correcting it. The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder is the only book available to guide both patients and those trying to help them. This thorough and much-needed volume explores the development of AvPD and presents a holistic view of its causes from the psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal perspectives. It offers an extensive section on diagnostic criteria that will be useful to sufferers and therapists, and it discusses the various therapies for AvPD. Finally, and perhaps most critically, the book provides a section intended as a guide for psychiatrists—and a self-help guide for sufferers—including a day-by-day, one-step-at-a-time, monthly guide on how to overcome AvPD.

Martin Kantor, MD, is a Harvard psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780313377525
ISBN 10	0313377529
Title	The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder
Author	Martin Kantor Md
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Praeger
Year published	2010-02-26
Number of pages	244
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