Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, First Edition by Nancy Mcwilliams

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, First Edition by Nancy Mcwilliams

An excellent introduction for students of psychoanalytic diagnostic thinking, this book clearly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patients's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Eschewing the dense jargon that often discourages beginning therapists, the book is engagingly written and includes numerous vignettes that bring concepts to life. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychologists, and clinical therapists. It is ideal for beginning therapists and students of psychotherapy and psychology.

This text serves as a good introduction to the field of psychodynamic therapy and conceptualization - American Journal of Psychotherapy

Thanks to McWilliams's excellent book, those of us who teach or supervise can at last offer our students and supervisees a comprehensive, exceptionally well-organized text on diagnosis, grounded in evolv ing psychoanalytic theory and focused on linking diagnosis to the appropriate therapeutic response....Since reading Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, I have found myself using it as a teaching tool and reference when diagnostic questions arise that have implications for therapeutic intervantions. - Contemporary

Psychology 41:6 "If a 'charming textbook' seems like an oxymoron, then welcome to Nancy McWilliams's Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. Her book is just such a wonder....McWilliams has succeeded in producing a book for initial learning that will remain on her readers' desk s as a frequently thumbed manual. - Psychoanalytic

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, teaches psychoanalytic theory and therapy at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey. A senior analyst with the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, she has a private practice in psychodynamic therapy and supervision in Flemington, New Jersey. Her previous book, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis has become a standard text in many training programs for psychoanalysts, both in the United States and abroad. She has also authored articles and book chapters on personality, psychotherapy, psychodiagnosis, sexuality, feminism, and contemporary psychopathologies.

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ISBN 13	9780898621990
ISBN 10	0898621992
Title	Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, First Edition
Author	Nancy Mcwilliams
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Guilford Publications
Year published	1994-07-07
Number of pages	398
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