Distancing: A Guide to Avoidance and Avoidant Personality Disorder - Hardcover

Kantor, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275944085 ISBN 13: 9780275944087

Publisher: Praeger, 1993

Synopsis

While it is not surprising that in today's world avoidance (or distancing) has become so widespread that people assign greater importance to their possessions than their relationships, what is surprising is the extent to which avoidance has been overlooked, misunderstood, and/or downplayed. This book provides an in-depth look at avoidance and Avoidant Personality disorder (APD). The author studies the avoidant in the real world and habitat and evolves a dedicated, eclectic, action-oriented therapeutic approach. Kantor believes it is important to move away from individual components of avoidance, such as fear of rejection or low self-esteem, and to study and treat the avoidant gestalt for which the proper treatment is avoidance reduction. Components of the psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, and supportive approaches that involve doing or action, are emphasized.

About this title

Book Description

This book provides an in-depth look at avoidance and avoidant personality disorder.

From the Author

As the title suggests, Distancing is as much about avoidance as it is about Avoidant Personality Disorder. It's important to distinguish between the two because descriptive material and treatment are different. My offering up various and sometimes conflicting therapeutic suggestions is consistent with my eclectic view and with Laura Smith Benjamin's reconstructive learning therapy which is an approach to dealing with personality disorders that draws from a wide range of available therapies in the belief that anything that helps is legitimate. Thank you, Dr. Kantor

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0275944085
• ISBN 13: 9780275944087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200