Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: First Edition (Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders) - Hardcover

Benjamin, Lorna Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572300604 ISBN 13: 9781572300606

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1996

Synopsis

This influential work helps clinicians resolve questions of overlap among diagnostic categories, offers specific and sensible suggestions for treatment interventions, and describes common transference problems in therapy.

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Review:

'After reading this book, therapists...will likely find their diagnostic skills enhanced, their conceptualization efforts more sophisticated, experience a heightened sense of empathy for their patients' difficulties in living, and find their treatment efforts more efficacious.' - Contemporary Psychology

About the Author:

After many years of clinical work in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, Lorna Smith Benjamin moved to the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah to collaborate with graduate students in the research study of psychosocial factors in mental disorder. A past president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research and an advisor to the DSM-IV work group on personality disorders, she is author of over 50 professional publications. Her SASB model of interpersonal relations has been translated into ten different languages. The associated coding system, questionnaires, and software are widely used in efforts to enhance scientific understanding of the practice of psychotherapy. Her dream is to use the concepts described in this book to guide development of a high-quality, low-cost research and training center that emphasizes efficacy in psychosocial treatment of major mental disorders.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1572300604
• ISBN 13: 9781572300606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 431