Search For The Real Self: Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Search For The Real Self: Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age
By (Author) James F. Masterson
Simon & Schuster
The Free Press
1st March 1990
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
616.89
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 18mm
270g
Description
Personality disorders - borderline, narcissistic and schizoid - have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their colleagues, family, lovers and employees - as well as mental health professionals. The author helps the reader understand them. After describing how the healthy real self develops and functions, he explains what can go wrong. Drawing on case histories, he shows how the false self behaves in relationships and on the job, and then delineates appropriate treatments, offering real hope for cure.
Author Bio
A prominent psychiatrist, James F. Masterson was born in Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Notre Dame and Jefferson Medical College. As a psychiatrist, Masterson became an authority on the treatment of personality disorders. He founded the Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 1977 and he wrote seven influential texts during his career. He died in 2010.
