Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

This unprecedented work is an invaluable resource for therapists treating patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), for individuals suffering from OCPD, and for friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD.

• Explains how OCPD compromises not only the quality of life of its sufferers but also the lives of many of the people that surround each OCPD individual

• Examines OCPD from multiple perspectives, documenting the author's eclectic treatment approach that views OCPD from multiple vantage points, including the psychodynamic, the interpersonal, and the cognitive-behavioral

• Extends the discussion of OCPD to include OCPD-inspired bureaucracies and how treating these toxic environments can lead to substantially improved socioeconomic functioning worldwide

• Serves therapists treating patients with OCPD; patients suffering from OCPD; friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD; and general readers interested in mental health issues

• Provides a bonus section on self-help methods that can be employed by the OCPD sufferer and those in the path of OCPD fallout

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

This unprecedented work is an invaluable resource for therapists treating patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), for individuals suffering from OCPD, and for friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD.

• Explains how OCPD compromises not only the quality of life of its sufferers but also the lives of many of the people that surround each OCPD individual

• Examines OCPD from multiple perspectives, documenting the author's eclectic treatment approach that views OCPD from multiple vantage points, including the psychodynamic, the interpersonal, and the cognitive-behavioral

• Extends the discussion of OCPD to include OCPD-inspired bureaucracies and how treating these toxic environments can lead to substantially improved socioeconomic functioning worldwide

• Serves therapists treating patients with OCPD; patients suffering from OCPD; friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD; and general readers interested in mental health issues

• Provides a bonus section on self-help methods that can be employed by the OCPD sufferer and those in the path of OCPD fallout

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

by Martin Kantor
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Understanding the Overly Rigid, Controlling Person

by Martin Kantor

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Overview

This unprecedented work is an invaluable resource for therapists treating patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), for individuals suffering from OCPD, and for friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD.

• Explains how OCPD compromises not only the quality of life of its sufferers but also the lives of many of the people that surround each OCPD individual

• Examines OCPD from multiple perspectives, documenting the author's eclectic treatment approach that views OCPD from multiple vantage points, including the psychodynamic, the interpersonal, and the cognitive-behavioral

• Extends the discussion of OCPD to include OCPD-inspired bureaucracies and how treating these toxic environments can lead to substantially improved socioeconomic functioning worldwide

• Serves therapists treating patients with OCPD; patients suffering from OCPD; friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD; and general readers interested in mental health issues

• Provides a bonus section on self-help methods that can be employed by the OCPD sufferer and those in the path of OCPD fallout


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440837890
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 08/15/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 301
File size: 774 KB

About the Author

Martin Kantor, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City and active in residency training programs at hospitals including Massachusetts General in Boston, MA, and Beth Israel in New York, NY.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part I Description 1

1 Selected Definitions 3

2 Mental Status (Excepting Thought and Behavior) 25

3 Mental Status: Thought 45

4 Mental Status: Behavior 69

5 The Interpersonal Venue: OCPD Fallout 113

6 Other Psychological Venues 135

7 The Social Venue 155

Part II Causation 169

8 Causation 171

Part III Treatment 205

9 Theoretical Considerations 207

10 Handling Specific Symptoms 223

11 Technical Aspects-Dealing with Resistances 239

12 Dealing with OCPD's Realistic Difficulties 247

13 Reasons to Triumph over Being OCPD-Self-Help 253

Notes 291

Index 295

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