Psychotherapy Of The Submerged Personality

The submerged personality is one in which the ego is replaced by an introjected parental self. Needing their parents for security, these patients give up their own perceptions of reality and accept the reality imposed by their parents. The psychotherapy necessary to effect introject dispersion is described in this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: The Primacy of the Individual in the Group. 1 The Primacy of the Individual. 2 Kinds of Groups. 3 The Individual in the Group. Part 2: Clinical Practice. 4 Basic Principles. 5 Group Composition. 6 Issues in Group Development. 7 Resolution of Patients' Psychopathology. 8 Analysis of Transference. 9 Countertransference. 10 The Role of the Leader. 11 A Reappraisal of the Field. Part 3: Applications. 12 The Discriminating Use of Feelings. 13 Deatling with the Roots of Aggression. 14 Pathological Motivation. 15 Creativity and the Submerged Personality Disorder. 16 The Future.

An accurate description of the problems associated with personality disorders can lead to psychotherapists providing better treatment for their patients, alleviating some of the difficulties associated with handling such disorders. The authors draw on existing therapeutic approaches and concepts to offer a treatment model for dealing with personality disorders. Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders clearly discusses the models for different types of personality disorder, along with general treatment principles, focusing on: principles for identifying and classifying types of disorder theoretical analyses that are characteristic of each type practical therapeutic principals that are grounded in the basic theory. The language is clinician-friendly and the therapeutic model is illustrated with clinical cases and session transcripts making this title essential reading for psychotherapists, personality disorder researchers and cognitive scientists as well as professionals with an interest in personality disorders.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book describes principles of TFP intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the tasks of the therapist and the sequence of responses by the patient for each phase of treatment.

This is Volume XVIII of nineteen in the Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Series. Originally published in 1957 this study offers the history of the theory and practice of psychotherapy. Since psychotherapy is a technique and not a science, the author has aimed at tracing the development of the technical differences between the schools, and deals only with such theoretical disagreements as seemed to be connected with these technical differences.