Dr. David Shapiro's first new book in ten years, Dynamics of Character deepens his now-classic studies of psychopathology with this conceptualization of a dynamics of the whole character--a self-regulatory system that encompasses personal attitudes, modes of activity, and relationship with the external world. Extending and magnifying Shapiro's original vision of psychopathology, Dynamics of Character is a resonantly reasoned response to the reduction of complex processes of mind to products of biological defect of psychological trauma.
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David Shapiro, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, at the New School. He is the author of Neurotic Styles, Autonomy and Rigid Character, and Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character. He practices psychotherapy in New York City.
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As a lay reader in the fields of psychology, I can only say that Shapiro presents a model of behaviour dynamics that is not only a vast improvement over neurochemical models, but is not at all inconsistent with them. The proposals are articulate, concise, and immediately proven through observation's new perspective. Anyone looking at the causes of neurosis, psychosis, or any mental illness should read this.
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The psychoanalytic conception of dynamics has presented problems not only theoretically, but also therapeutically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonpsychotic pathology, obsessive conscientiousness, volitional direction, schizophrenic loss, forestall anxiety, nonpsychotic conditions, diminished agency, obsessive person, respective symptoms, relationship with the external world, characterological defense, psychopathic character, double bookkeeping, defensive mobilization, hysterical character, catatonic patient, neurotic conditions, rigid person, rigid character, paranoid conditions, ordinary judgment, adult pathology, compulsive hand washing, volitional action, hypomanic state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The psychoanalytic conception of dynamics has presented problems not only theoretically, but also therapeutically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonpsychotic pathology, obsessive conscientiousness, volitional direction, schizophrenic loss, forestall anxiety, nonpsychotic conditions, diminished agency, obsessive person, respective symptoms, relationship with the external world, characterological defense, psychopathic character, double bookkeeping, defensive mobilization, hysterical character, catatonic patient, neurotic conditions, rigid person, rigid character, paranoid conditions, ordinary judgment, adult pathology, compulsive hand washing, volitional action, hypomanic state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Heinz Werner, Louis Sass, Andras Angyal, David Rapaport, Hellmuth Kaiser, John Custance, Silvano Arieti, Thomas Freeman New!
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- Autonomy and Rigid Character by David Shapiro on page 31, and Back Matter
- Psychotherapy Of Neurotic Character by David Shapiro on page 113, and Back Matter
- Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William Burroughs in Back Matter
- Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics) by Daniel Paul Schreber in Back Matter
- Schizophrenia as a Human Process (Norton Library,) by Harry Stack Sullivan in Back Matter
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- Neurotic Styles (The Austen Riggs Center Monograph Series, No. 5) by David Shapiro in Back Cover
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