This acclaimed Clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication.
Winner--Canadian Psychological Association\'s Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship. *Coverage of the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis. *Incorporates important advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma.
New to This Edition *Reflects the ongoing development of the author\'s approach over nearly two decades.
Highly readable, the book features a wealth of illustrative Clinical examples.
Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and using it to inform treatment.
She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that Understanding the patient\'s individual Personality Structure can influence the therapist\'s focus and style of intervention.
Nancy Mcwilliams makes Psychoanalytic Personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience.
This acclaimed Clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication
