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Distancing Avoidant Personality Disorder, Revised and Expanded
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Martin Kantor
Book Code: C7829
ISBN: 0-275-97829-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97829-7
296 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2003
List Price: $62.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Recommended. Most useful to practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, and general readers interested in this relatively neglected personality disorder.
    —Choice     June 2004
  • Endorsement From Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner
    Educational Psychologist/Researcher, author Living the Sweet Life:     Once again Dr. Kantor demonstrates an uncanny ability to transform his extensive expertise into language that both the layperson and mental health professional will devour and put to immediate use....This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in human interaction.
Description: Kantor focuses on a misunderstood but common condition that brings severe and pervasive anxiety about social contacts and relationships. Fear of intimacy and commitment keeps avoidants from forming close, meaningful relationships. Types of avoidants can include confirmed bachelors, "femme fatales," and people who form what appear to be solid relationships only to tire of them and leave with little warning, often devastating their partners/victims. Kantor takes us through the history of this disorder, and into clinical treatment rooms, to see and hear how avoidants think, feel, and recover. He offers psychotherapists a specific method for helping avoidants overcome their fear of closeness and commitments, and offers a guide for avoidants themselves to use for developing lasting, intimate, anxiety-free relationships. The avoidance reduction techniques presented in this book recognize that avoidants not only fear criticism and humiliation, but also fear being flooded by their feelings and being depleted if they express them. Acceptance is feared as much as rejection, because avoidants fear compromising their identity and losing personal freedom. Kantor describes the different therapeutic emphasis required for the four types of avoidants, including those who are withdrawn due to shyness and social phobia, such as people who intensely fear public speaking; those who relate easily, widely, and well, but cannot sustain relationships due to fear of closeness; those whose restlessness causes them to leave steady relationships, often without warning; and those who grow dependent on--and merge with--a single lover or family member and avoid relating to anyone else.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Description
  • Why Has Avoidant Personality Disorder Received So Little Attention?
  • The Literature
  • The Mental Status Profile
  • Types of Avoidants
  • Healthy Avoidance
  • Avoidant People
  • Sociocultural Manifestations
  • Course
  • Comorbid Disorders: Comorbidity with Schizotypal, Schizoid and Affective Disorder
  • Comorbid Disorders: Comorbidity with "Neurotic" Spectrum Disorders
  • Comorbid Disorders: Comorbidity with Other Personality Disorders
  • Cause: An Overview
  • Therapy
  • An Overview of Avoidance Reduction
  • Psychodynamically Oriented Psychotherapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Interpersonal Therapy
  • Supportive Therapy
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Therapeutic Modifications for Treating Avoidants
  • Treating Depressed Avoidants
LC Card Number: 2003052894
LCC Class: RC569
Dewey Class: 616
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