Preface
I. Framework
1. Quantum Change for Personality Disordered Patients
2. The STRP Model: Process, Theory, and Constructs
3. Assessment and Treatment Planning
4. How to Formulate Core Issues
5. Techniques of STRP: The Use of Anxiety and Maximizing the
Therapeutic Alliance
6. Comprehensive Restructuring of the Personality
7. Overview of the Treatment Process
II. Process and Technique in the Treatment of the Personality
Disorders
8. Cluster C Disorders: The Treatment-Responsive Group
9. Cluster B Disorders: The Mixed-Results Group
10. Cluster A Disorders: The Treatment-Refractory Group
11. Treatment Pitfalls
12. Termination and Follow-Up: Measuring Therapeutic
Effectiveness
13. Future Challenges
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP, is the founder of the Connecticut Center for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and has been in active clinical practice for fifteen years. He trains mental health professionals and lectures on the theory, technique, and science of psychotherapy. Dr. Magnavita was the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology award given by the Connecticut Psychological Association, for his contributions to the field of psychotherapy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Psychotherapy Researchers, Society for Psychotherapy Integration, and the International Society on the Study of Personality Disorders, and is a book reviewer for the journal, Psychotherapy.
This is a timely and much needed book. The author presents a
systematic approach for understanding and treating personality
disorders utilizing short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Clinical
examples abound and technical strategies are clearly articulated.
This book will be useful for every clinician, teacher, and student
of brief dynamic psychotherapy. --Arnold Winston, MD, Chairman
Dept. of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center; Professor and Vice
Chairman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Richly grounded in clinical research and up-to-date in theory, this
book offers unique blueprints for the complex clinical challenges
presented by personality disordered patients. The book is richly
studded with clinical wisdom, which will empower the reader to
resolve therapeutic roadblocks. Dr. Magnavita's work provides
solid, science-based foundations for therapeutic ambition, and hope
to a field in desperate need of such a
breakthrough. --Manuel Trujillo, M.D., New York University
Medical
Center and Bellevue Hospital Center
Although intended as a brief treatment manual for the personality
disorders, Magnavita's text is one of the most intelligent and
thoughtful books available on psychotherapy for these difficult to
treat disorders. This highly readable book provides a systematic
model with associated techniques to deal with each of the major
clusters of Axis II in the DSM-IV. It is a volume that is both
theoretically coherent and eminently usable by clinicians of all
persuasions. Guided by a deep appreciation of the psychodynamics
that undergird personality pathology, Dr. Magnavita has written an
incisive and engaging synthesis of what should be known to treat
these patients effectively. --Theodore Millon, Ph.D., DSc., Dean
and Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in
Personology and Psychopathology.
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