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Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
by Nancy McWilliams
from The Guilford Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Straightforward solutions
  This is an intelligent, practical and honest resource. It is not full of wordy, mind-numbing explanations like many other psychodynamic texts. Definitely would recommend.

• Excellent book
  Highly recommended for anyone interested in personality or clinical psychology. Nancy McWilliams is a fantastic writer and makes quite complex concepts very accessible and easily understandable. I also appreciate the compassion with which she discusses personality disordered individuals.

• Accessible Freud
  This book is required reading for my graduate studies, but after having read Brenner to get the complexities of Freud's theories, it is quite refreshing. The book is well organized, and it doesn't drown in academic language. It is fairly easy to understand, which makes it possible to put all of the components of psycho-dynamics together to make sense. I would reccommend this to anyone who wants to understand the origin of psycho-analysis, or to anyone who just is curious about Freud and how he influenced... more info

• Not just for the psychodynamically inclined.
  With clarity of expression, humanity and imagination, McWilliams has written a classic exposition of psychodiagnosis from the dynamic framework. However, this book will be read for years to come by clinicians seeking to understand symptoms and behavior in the context of the personality of the person exhibiting these symptoms or behavior, and not just clinicians who are psychodynamically oriented. I run a psychology doctoral training program and suggest this book to all of my students. Understanding the... more info

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