Description
This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need within the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that figuring out the patient’s individual personality structure can influence the therapist’s center of attention and style of intervention. Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and the usage of it to inform remedy. Highly readable, the book includes a wealth of illustrative clinical examples.
Winner–Canadian Psychological Association’s Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship