Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, Second Edition: Second Edition (Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders) - Softcover

Benjamin, Lorna Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572308605 ISBN 13: 9781572308602

Publisher: Guilford Press, 2003

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.

About this title

Review:

"After reading this book, therapists...will likely find their diagnostic skills enhanced and their conceptualization efforts more sophisticated, experience a heightened sense of empathy for their patients' difficulties in living, and find their treatment efforts more efficacious."-- (12/20/2002)

"For those of us who practice psychotherapy and especially who work with the personality disorders, this book will be an invaluable tool."--American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (12/20/2002)

About the Author:

Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Utah and Founder of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). She has a small private practice, serves as a consultant at UNI, and gives workshops on psychotherapy with difficult cases.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1572308605
• ISBN 13: 9781572308602
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 431