Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual - Pdm-2 -

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Résumé :
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this is the authoritative diagnostic manual grounded in psychodynamic models. Designed to drive case formulation and treatment planning, PDM-2 offers practitioners an empirically based alternative or supplement to DSM and ICD systems. Leading international authorities systematically address personality functioning and psychological problems of infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, with clear conceptualizations and case examples. Purchasers get access to a companion website with additional case illustrations and five reproducible PDM-derived rating scales. New to this edition : - Significant revisions to all chapters, reflecting a decade of clinical, empirical, and methodological advances. . - Chapter with extended case illustrations, including complete PDM profiles. . - Separate section on older adults (the first classification system with a geriatric section). . - Extensive treatment of psychotic conditions and the psychotic level of personality organization. . - More attention to issues of culture and diversity, and to clinician and patient subjectivity. . - Chapter on recommended assessment instruments, plus downloadable diagnostic tools. . - In-depth comparisons to DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM throughout. Sponsoring associations include the International Psychoanalytical Association, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and five other major organizations.

Biographie:
Vittorio Lingiardi, MD, is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and past Director (2006-2013) of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Pragram in the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. His research interests include diagnostic assessment and treatment of personality disorders, process?outcome research in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and gender identity and sexual orientation. He has published widely on these topics, including articles in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Research, and World Psychiatry. Dr. Lingiardi is a recipient of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. From 2013 to 2016, he served on the technical committee for the eligibility of the training programs of the psychotherapy private schools of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, is Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and has a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey. She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology and has authored three classic books on psychotherapy, including the award-winning Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition : Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. Dr. McWilliams is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a former Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is a recipient of the Leadership and Scholarship Awards from Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Hans H. Strupp Award from the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, and delivered the Dr. Rosalee G. Weiss Lecture for Outstanding Leaders in Psychology for APA Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice). She has demonstrated psychodynamic psychotherapy in three APA educational videos and has spoken at the commencement ceremonies of the Yale University School of Medicine and the Smith College School for Social Work.