Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach [Paperback]

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Author: Theodore Millon
ISBN : 9780471717713
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A revolutionary, personalized psychotherapy approach for the treatment of Axis II personality disorders, by renowned expert Dr. Theodore Millon

Acknowledging the primacy of the whole person, Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach takes into account all of the complexities of human nature--family influences, culture, neurobiological processes, unconscious memories, and so on--illustrating that no part of human nature should lie outside the scope of a clinician's regard.

Part of a three-book series, this book provides you with a unique combination of conceptual background and step-by-step practical advice to guide your treatment of Axis II personality disorders.

Detailed case studies are provided throughout the text to illustrate the strategies of personalized psychotherapy for:
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The Needy/Dependent Prototype
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The Sociable/Histrionic Prototype
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The Confident/Narcissistic Prototype
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The Nonconforming/Antisocial Prototype
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The Assertive/Sadistic Prototype
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The Conscientious/Compulsive Prototype
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The Skeptical/Negativistic Prototype

Destined to become an essential reference for trainees and professionals, this book makes a revolutionary call to return therapy to the natural reality of each patient's life, seamlessly guiding you in understanding the personality and treatment of the whole, unique, yet complex person.
  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 20, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471717711
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471717713
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
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Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach

Preface.

Part One.


Chapter 1 Personalized Psychotherapy: A Recapitulation.

Part Two.


Chapter 2 Personalized Therapy for the Needy/Dependent Personality Patterns.


Chapter 3 Personalized Therapy for the Sociable/Histrionic Personality Patterns.


Chapter 4 Personalized Therapy for the Confident/Narcissistic Personality Patterns.


Chapter 5 Personalized Therapy for the Nonconforming/Antisocial Personality Patterns.


Chapter 6 Personalized Therapy for the Assertive/Sadistic Personality Patterns.


Chapter 7 Personalized Therapy for the Conscientious/Compulsive Personality Patterns.


Chapter 8 Personalized Therapy for the Skeptical/Negativistic Personality Patterns.


References.


Index.

With this, I've now waded through four of Dr. Millon's (and his various colleagues') tomes on the character disorders... and uniformly found them all to be terrifically informative and useful. But from the git (with his =Personality Guided Therapy=, 1999), I wondered why it was that Millon and his teams have had so precious little to say about the etiology of the specific disorders.

I may be a "neuropsychological cognitive-behavioralist" in the trenches, but psychodynamic principles have always helped me to deepen my empathy, emotional congruity and unconditional regard for troubled - and troubling - patients. And those Rogerian qualities have reliably proven to be entirely necessary to finesse the process of cognitive restructuring, as well as convincing the patient to surrender his will and his life to the higher power of EMDR, SIQR or some other messing about with his limbic system.

Blame it on Alice Miller, Claudia Black, Pia Mellody, Richard Kluft and Frank Putnam, I suppose. But it really does help (me, anyway) to have a firm grip on "what happened way back when" that's driving the patient's compulsions to repeat the trauma with his relentlessly dysfunctional defense mechanisms.

Over time, and surely with help from Beck's and Freeman's lists of what the specific personality disorder tends to believe, I began to figure that narcissistic injuries of one sort or another had occurred, and that it was likely that the perpetrators demonstrated no mean degree of the same sort of thing that I was seeing and hearing right there in front of me. Some time after that I began to sense that what had worked "well" for the perps was now working "well" for the patient, too.
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