ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT WITH STRUCTURED AND UNDER-STRUCTURED PERSONALITIES

What is it about?

This paper describes, from a structural personality perspective, assessment with a range of patients presenting in the clinical setting. Clinical examples are give in order to contextualise the key ideas under discussion.

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Why is it important?

A psycho-dynamically informed assessment may greatly aid clinicians in understanding both developmental deficits and conflicts that continue to influence behaviours and that influence the transference/counter-transference relationship.

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