Character Styles
Book Details
- Publisher : W.W.Norton
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 352
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 5237
- ISBN 13 : 9781324082361
- ISBN 10 : 1324082364
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Frances Verrinder PhD MFT USA on 23/08/2024 00:34:10
(5 out of 5)
An amazing book from the 90s which I asked all my graduate students to read -- readable, concise and very approachable. I can't recommend it too highly.
Johnson describes the affect, cognition, behavior and treatment interventions for the schizoid, masochistic, narcissistic , borderline and obsessive-compulsive styles.
The chapter on the masochism is probably the best and most useful I have found for working with patients with this style. Johnson describes the therapist's dilemma -- we can't want anything for the patient because they will feel oppressed, refuse us , possibly spitefully. so we have to educate and wait until the patient can slowly begin to express his wants and needs which were so cruelly denied, thereby beginning to build a real sense of self.