Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy / Edition 2

by Mardi Horowitz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765703507
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.25(d)
Lexile:	1320L (what's this?)

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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1.	The History of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy	3
2.	Our Approach to Brief Therapy: Focused on Current Stressors	34
3.	Configurational Analysis: An Approach to Case Formulation and Review	51
4.	The Hysterical Personality	68
5.	The More Disturbed Hysterical Personality	110
6.	The Compulsive Personality	159
7.	The Narcissistic Personality	207
8.	The Borderline Personality	259
9.	Change in Brief Psychotherapy	319
	References	331
	Index	339

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Horowitz and his colleagues have made a significant addition to the literature on brief psychotherapy. The initial chapter reviewing historical developments is not only an excellent summary of current psychotherapeutic techniques, but it provides a fitting background to the authors' own unique concerns with tailoring brief therapy to the individual patient's personality configuration. This is a book from which all psychotherapists will profit, whether they are budding beginners or in the full flower of a successful career.

John C. Nemiah

The advancement of psychotherapy as a scientific discipline and clinical art requires the kinds of incisive analyses undertaken by Dr. Mardi Horowitz and his collaborators. Their work is thought-provoking and exemplifies the directions in which the field must move.

Hans H. Strupp

Dr. Horowitz and his colleagues have made a significant addition to the literature on brief psychotherapy. The initial chapter reviewing historical developments is not only an excellent summary of current psychotherapeutic techniques, but it provides a fitting background to the authors' own unique concerns with tailoring brief therapy to the individual patient's personality configuration. This is a book from which all psychotherapists will profit, whether they are budding beginners or in the full flower of a successful career.--John C. Nemiah, M.D., Harvard Medical School; psychiatrist-in-chief, Beth Israel Hospital

The advancement of psychotherapy as a scientific discipline and clinical art requires the kinds of incisive analyses undertaken by Dr. Mardi Horowitz and his collaborators. Their work is thought-provoking and exemplifies the directions in which the field must move.--Hans H. Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

From the Publisher

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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)