Dynamics of Character: Self-Regulation in Psychopathology

By David A. Shapiro

Book Overview

In his first new book in ten years, David Shapiro extends the stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the psychopathological.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465095712
• ISBN13: 9780465095711
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Towards a Better Model

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.