Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy (The Master Work Series)

1st paperback edition, printed in the USA, xv + 349 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Slightly bent tip of the lower outer corner of front cover and first pages; a short crease to the lower outer corner of the front cover. Diagonal wrinkles in protective laminate on spine. -- Written for therapists working with people in distress, this book describes the links between crisis and personality style, and offers a plan for approaching cases with these connections in mind. The authors discuss ways to help patients learn new coping strategies, modify enduring attitudes, and improve their relational patterns. The chapters outline the history of brief dynamic psychotherapy, describe an approach focused on current stressors, apply configurational analysis to case formulation and review, and detail five personality types. -- Contents: 1. The History of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy 2. Our Approach to Brief Therapy: Focused on Current Stressors 3. Configurational Analysis: An Approach to Case Formulation and Review 4. The Hysterical Personality 5. The More Disturbed Hysterical Personality 6. The Compulsive Personality 7. The Narcissistic Personality 8. The Borderline Personality 9. Change in Brief Psychotherapy; References; Index. …