Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-371) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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[Pt.] I. Relatedness and self-definition : a fundamental polarity of experience -- 1. Fundamental dimensions in personality and social theory -- [Pt.] II. Personality development -- 2. Developmental antecedents of relatedness and self-definition -- 3. Relatedness and self-definition in personality development -- 4. Dialectical development of interpersonal relatedness and self-definition -- [Pt.] III. Personality organization and psychopathology -- 5. Two primary configurations of personality organization -- 6. Two primary configurations of psychopathology -- [Pt.] IV. The therapeutic process -- 7. Relatedness and self-definition and therapeutic change -- 8. Relatedness and self-definition in the therapeutic process.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book presents a groundbreaking approach that establishes conceptual continuities among normal and pathological personality development, the classification of psychopathology, and the therapeutic process. Sidney J. Blatt proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between two fundamental dimensions in human affairs, relatedness, and self-definition. Clinical researchers as well as therapists, psychiatrists, and graduate students will find this book to be a rich source of new ideas for research and practice."--Jacket.