Martin Kantor Md

The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers.

Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) is an extremely widespread, devastating disorder that generally goes unrecognized or misrepresented by what little scientific literature there is on the topic. Therapists are left mystified about how to diagnose and treat it, and patients and other sufferers are at a loss as to what is wrong and how to go about correcting it.

The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder is the only book available to guide both patients and those trying to help them. This thorough and much-needed volume explores the development of AvPD and presents a holistic view of its causes from the psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal perspectives. It offers an extensive section on diagnostic criteria that will be useful to sufferers and therapists, and it discusses the various therapies for AvPD. Finally, and perhaps most critically, the book provides a section intended as a guide for psychiatrists-and a self-help guide for sufferers-including a day-by-day, one-step-at-a-time, monthly guide on how to overcome AvPD.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313377532
• Artikelnr.: 37833486

Autorenporträt

Martin Kantor, MD is a Harvard psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City, and active in residency training programs at several hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Beth Israel in New York. He also served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical School and as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School. He is currently a full-time medical author, the author of more than a dozen other books, including Homophobia, Second Edition (Praeger 2009); Uncle Sam's Shame: Inside the Veteran's Administration (Praeger 2008); Lifting the Weight: Understanding Depression in Men: Its Causes and Solutions (Praeger 2007); The Psychopathy of Everyday Life: How Antisocial Personality Disorder Affects All of Us (Praeger, 2006); Understanding Paranoia: A Guide for Professional, Families, and Sufferers (Praeger 2004); Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Revised and Expanded (Praeger, 2003), Passive-Aggression: A Guide for the Therapist, the Patient, and the Victim (Praeger, 2002), Treating Emotional Disorder in Gay Men (Praeger, 1999), and Homophobia (Praeger, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART ONE: DESCRIPTION AND CAUSATION Chapter 1 Classic or Type I
Avoidant Personality Disorder Chapter 2 Counterphobic Avoidants Chapter 3
Healthy and Normal versus Pathological Avoidance Chapter 4 Sexual Avoidance
Chapter 5 Course Chapter 6 Differential Diagnosis Chapter 7 Comorbidity
Chapter 8 Cognitive-Behavioral Aspects Chapter 9 Development PART TWO:
THERAPY Chapter 10 An Overview of Avoidance Reduction Chapter 11
Psychodynamically Oriented Psychotherapy Chapter 12 Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy Chapter 13 Interpersonal Therapy Chapter 14 Supportive Therapy
Chapter 15 Other Forms of Therapy Chapter 16 The Ideal Therapist Chapter 17
Helping Avoidants Overcome Their Fear of Criticism Chapter 18 Helping
Avoidants Overcome Their Low Self-Esteem Chapter 19 Treating Sexual
Avoidance: An Overview PART THREE: SELF-HELP Chapter 20 Overcoming Shyness
and Withdrawal Notes Index