Character Styles
23 August 2024
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Description
How basic existential and developmental issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorders and symptoms of neurosis in character styles.
Reviews
"Stephen Johnson’s Character Styles is a scholarly exploration of the most profound psychological mysteries: what determines human behavior and what we can do about its destructive manifestations. Dr. Johnson’s response to this challenge is distinguished by a vastly informed, deeply felt intelligence. Together with his previous three volumes, Character Styles provides a major contribution to the literature of the healing arts." — Avodah Offit, MD, author of Virtual Love
"This book will be useful to all psychotherapists. It is an eminently readable review that integrates and extends several literatures. Disturbances of personality, due to maladaptive character development, are examined with theories of causation that are linked to techniques for change. Therapists will find the lucid, conversational style of highest interest." — Mardi J. Horowitz, MD, professor of psychiatry, director of Center for the Study of Neuroses, UCSF
Also By: Stephen M. Johnson 
The Symbiotic Character
Paperback, 1991
Humanizing the Narcissistic Style
Hardback, 1987
The narcissistic style is rooted in the individual’s family and early childhood and is an endemic result of our culture’s material perfectionism.
Characterological Transformation: The Hard Work Miracle
Paperback, 1985
“[H]ighly recommended as a uniquely sensitive and intelligent interpretation of the personal dynamics of character structure and the correlating contributions of ego psychology to these dynamics.”...