Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature describes the problematic ways people learn to cope with life’s fundamental challenges, such as maintaining self-esteem, bearing loss, and growing old. People tend to deal with these challenges in characteristic, repetitive ways. This book illustrates each coping pattern using vivid, compelling fiction whose characters express their dilemmas in easily accessible, evocative language.
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- Illustrates coping patterns through literature and fiction.
- Features insights drawn from renowned authors such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Munro.
- Explores various defensive styles including schizoid, paranoid, grandiose, hysteric, and obsessive.
- Provides a deeper understanding of major personality disorders through literary examples.
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Sandra Buechler uses these examples to show some of the ways we complicate our lives and, through reimagining different scenarios for these characters, she illustrates how clients can achieve greater emotional health and live their lives more productively. Each defensive style is costly and limits the possibility for happiness and fulfillment.
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