Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond Dsm-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses

ISBN-13: 9780367345815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 314 str.

Michael R. Butz

Opis

Using Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy/factitious disorder by proxy and parental alienation as blueprints, this book advances a new diagnostic category for addressing complex pathological phenomena that integrates individual characteristics and symptoms, family and other system dynamics under one diagnosis.

 

O autorze

Michael R. Bütz, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in Montana who specializes in forensics with Aspen Practice, P.C., and clinical and neuropsychology at St. Vincent Healthcare. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Society of Clinical Psychology and recipient of numerous awards from APA’s Provincial and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs Division (31). Dr. Butz has been best known for his previous work on nonlinear dynamics as the author of Chaos and Complexity: Implications for Psychological Theory and Practice (1997) and as coauthor of Strange Attractors: Chaos, Complexity and the Art of Family Therapy (1997) and Clinical Chaos: A Therapist’s Guide to Nonlinear Dynamics and Therapeutic Change (Routledge, 1998).