Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy (The Master Work Series)

Mardi Horowitz; Charles Marmar; Janice Krupnick; Nancy Wilner; Nancy Kaltreider; Robert Wallerstein

ISBN 10: 1568218702 / ISBN 13: 9781568218700

Published by Jason Aronson, 1997

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy (The Master Work Series)
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568218702
• ISBN 13: 9781568218700
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Mardi Jon Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He has directed a series of programs including the Psychotherapy Evaluation and Study Center, Center for the Study of Neuroses, and Center on Stress and Personality. Dr. Horowitz has published many books, including States of Mind: Configurational Analysis of Individual Personality, Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy, and Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy. He is the recipient of the Pioneer Award of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for his achievements in developing the diagnoses of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and disorders of complicated grief.