The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder by Martin Kantor

Description: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder by Martin Kantor MD Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers.Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) is an extremely widespread, devastating disorder that generally goes unrecognized or misrepresented by what little scientific literature there is on the topic. Therapists are left mystified about how to diagnose and treat it, and patients and other sufferers are at a loss as to what is wrong and how to go about correcting it.The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder is the only book available to guide both patients and those trying to help them. This thorough and much-needed volume explores the development of AvPD and presents a holistic view of its causes from the psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal perspectives. It offers an extensive section on diagnostic criteria that will be useful to sufferers and therapists, and it discusses the various therapies for AvPD. Finally, and perhaps most critically, the book provides a section intended as a guide for psychiatrists—and a self-help guide for sufferers—including a day-by-day, one-step-at-a-time, monthly guide on how to overcome AvPD. Author Biography Martin Kantor, MD, is a Harvard psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City. Table of Contents PrefacePART ONE: DESCRIPTION AND CAUSATIONChapter 1 Classic or Type I Avoidant Personality DisorderChapter 2 Counterphobic AvoidantsChapter 3 Healthy and Normal versus Pathological AvoidanceChapter 4 Sexual AvoidanceChapter 5 CourseChapter 6 Differential DiagnosisChapter 7 ComorbidityChapter 8 Cognitive-Behavioral AspectsChapter 9 DevelopmentPART TWO: THERAPYChapter 10 An Overview of Avoidance ReductionChapter 11 Psychodynamically Oriented PsychotherapyChapter 12 Cognitive-Behavioral TherapyChapter 13 Interpersonal TherapyChapter 14 Supportive TherapyChapter 15 Other Forms of TherapyChapter 16 The Ideal TherapistChapter 17 Helping Avoidants Overcome Their Fear of CriticismChapter 18 Helping Avoidants Overcome Their Low Self-EsteemChapter 19 Treating Sexual Avoidance: An OverviewPART THREE: SELF-HELPChapter 20 Overcoming Shyness and WithdrawalNotesIndex Promotional Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers. Long Description Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) is an extremely widespread, devastating disorder that generally goes unrecognized or misrepresented by what little scientific literature there is on the topic. Therapists are left mystified about how to diagnose and treat it, and patients and other sufferers are at a loss as to what is wrong and how to go about correcting it. The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder is the only book available to guide both patients and those trying to help them. This thorough and much-needed volume explores the development of AvPD and presents a holistic view of its causes from the psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal perspectives. It offers an extensive section on diagnostic criteria that will be useful to sufferers and therapists, and it discusses the various therapies for AvPD. Finally, and perhaps most critically, the book provides a section intended as a guide for psychiatrists--and a self-help guide for sufferers--including a day-by-day, one-step-at-a-time, monthly guide on how to overcome AvPD. Promotional "Headline" Despite the prevalence of Avoidant Personality Disorder, there are few therapists who specialize in treating it and few therapy groups composed mainly or only of its sufferers. Most experts incorrectly lump AvPD with social phobia, creating diagnostic confusion and leading to inadequate and often misguided therapy. Description for Reader * Distinguishes AvPD from social phobia, a related disorder that requires an entirely different therapeutic approach * Presents diagnostic criteria for therapists looking to make a correct diagnosis and for patients wanting to know if this is whats wrong with them-and what to do about it * Revises Dr. Kantors earlier book Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder with a new infrastructure, expanded with new case histories, a new section on sexual avoidance, and a new self-help program for coping and overcoming AvPD Details ISBN0313377529 Short Title ESSENTIAL GT OVERCOMING AVOIDA Language English ISBN-10 0313377529 ISBN-13 9780313377525 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2010 Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc Place of Publication Westport Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations Publication Date 2010-02-26 UK Release Date 2010-02-26 NZ Release Date 2010-02-26 US Release Date 2010-02-26 Audience Age 7-17 Author Martin Kantor MD Pages 244 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc DEWEY 616.8582 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2010-02-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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