The Freedom of the Self: The Bio-Existential Treatment of Character Problems

ISBN-13: 9780306443701 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 248 str.

Eugene M. Abroms

Opis

Argues that severe personality disorders result from the shattering of the self and subsequent warfare between subpersonalities. Traces the notion to 19th-century French psychiatry, and shows how it can be modernized by recognizing the connection between such a shattering and unresolved traumatic gr

Spis treści

The Bio-Existential Spirit. The Definition and History of Psychotherapy. The Five Modern Schools of Mental Treatment. The Case of Beth and Howard. The History of the Hologram. Making the Diagnosis, Staging the Treatment. A Grief-Based Theory of Disorder. The Dynamics of Drug Therapy. Changing the Rules. Reliving the Past or Creating the Future. Guided Intimacy and Milieu Therapy. Freedom. Index.