Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: (PDM)
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By: Alliance of Psychoanalytic Organizations
Format: Paperback
From: Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
Pub. Date: April 2006
From: Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
Pub. Date: April 2006
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2006-05-28
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 600
Ean: 9780976775829
Isbn: 0976775824
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2006-05-28
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 600
Ean: 9780976775829
Isbn: 0976775824
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
This manual is based on current neuroscience and treatment outcome studies that demonstrate the importance of focusing on the full range and depth of emotional and social functioning. Beginning with a classification of the spectrum of personality patterns and disorders found in individuals and then describing a profile of mental functioning that permits a clinician to look in detail at each of the patient's capacities, the entries include a description of the patient's symptoms with a focus on the patient's internal experiences as well as surface behaviors. Intended to expand on the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)and ICD (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) efforts in cataloging the symptoms and behaviors of mental health patients, this manual opens the door to a fuller understanding of the functioning of the mind, brain, and their development.
USER REVIEWS
"The PDM is very helpful and a good complement to the DSM-IV. Every good clinician should consult it..."
~ Written on 2008-07-31
~ Written on 2008-07-31
"I found this manual a useful resource for the evaluation and treatment of our consultants.
It's also an invaluable aid for teaching psychotherapy.
As it presents personality traits as a continuum, with emphasis in healthy functional patterns and healthy personality, the comprehension of psychopatology results a dynamic process, not a cold list of symtoms.
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~ Written on 2008-03-27
It's also an invaluable aid for teaching psychotherapy.
As it presents personality traits as a continuum, with emphasis in healthy functional patterns and healthy personality, the comprehension of psychopatology results a dynamic process, not a cold list of symtoms.
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~ Written on 2008-03-27
"I have found the manual very detailed and informative. A very useful resource to add to my reference library."
~ Written on 2007-11-07
~ Written on 2007-11-07
"If you're anything like me (by like "me" I mean you're not necessarily fond of the DSMs) chances are you'd like this alternate classification. All of the heavyweight psychoanalysis organizations joined together to produce a diagnostic manual that takes into account the subjective experience of the patient, beyond the description of a general diagnosis. The reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because I'd like it to have important information on transference and countertransference. Being created by the psychoanalytic organizations you'd expect it to include some notes on the Transference/Countertransferece experience in general for each pathology. But the truth is that this manual is actually useful even for therapists outside the psychoanalytic field, so the transferences/countertransference would have probably narrowed the group of psychotherapists it can reach being written the way it is."
~ Written on 2007-06-01
~ Written on 2007-06-01
"This is a long over due alternative to the DSMlV-R. The joint effort of six of the countries dynamically oriented professional organizations have led to a fully referenced and well thought out manual using a psychodynamic/psychoanalytical oreintation to understanding the patient.
Using a three axis model including Personality Patterns and Disorders,Mental Functioning axis and Subjective Experience to help the clinician organize the elements of the dynamic presentation of the patient Each axis has usefull subsets and using them the clinician can deveolpe a dynamic picture of the whole patient. This is a wonderful tool and teaching device. Kit Erskine M.S.Ed., M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W."
~ Written on 2007-05-14
Using a three axis model including Personality Patterns and Disorders,Mental Functioning axis and Subjective Experience to help the clinician organize the elements of the dynamic presentation of the patient Each axis has usefull subsets and using them the clinician can deveolpe a dynamic picture of the whole patient. This is a wonderful tool and teaching device. Kit Erskine M.S.Ed., M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W."
~ Written on 2007-05-14