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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas P. Beresford (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado-Denver, CO, Denver, USA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780199794492ISBN 10: 0199794499 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 21 June 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Humans Adapt Chapter 2: The Clinical Model Chapter 3: The Clinical Method Chapter 4: Denial Chapter 5: Avoidance/ Distortion Chapter 6: Psychotic Projection Chapter 7: Acting Out Chapter 8: Passive Aggression Chapter 9: Hypochondriasis Chapter 10: Schizoid Fantasy Chapter 11: Neurotic Projection Chapter 12: Repression Chapter 13: Intellectualization, or Isolation of Affect Chapter 14: Dissociation Chapter 15: Displacement Chapter 16: Reaction Formation Chapter 17: Suppression Chapter 18: Anticipation Chapter 19: Altruism Chapter 20: Sublimation Chapter 21: Humor Chapter 22: Clinical and Practical Uses IndexReviews<br> Tom Beresford has written a wonderful book for anyone interested in the complexities of the human mind. He brings superior teaching skills and thirty years of clinical experience together with the talents of a poet and the literary knowledge of an English professor. Each literary and clinical vignette used to illuminate unconscious coping mechanisms is a gripping, lucid, believable and compelling departure from what leads many of us away from psychoanalytic writing. This is a book for both beach and academic library reading. --George E. Vaillant MD, author of The Life and Lives of the Harvard Grad Study<p><br> Tom Beresford shows us clearly that psychodynamic assessment can be carried out reliably on the basis of observable behavior. In his view adaptive mechanisms are flexible and creative means of coping as well as possible, rather than involuntary defenses. His positive psychobiological approach is lucidly described with insightful case histories and other examples from writers as diverse as Homer, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. Psychiatry residents and anyone else who wants to understand human motives will delight in its content and style. -- C. Robert Cloninger, MD, Renard Professor of Psychiatry & Genetics, Washington University & Author of Feeling Good: The Science of Well-being<p><br> With Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms Dr. Beresford has presented to us a compassionate, humane, eminently readable and clinically useful labor of love. He gives us a generous mixture of clinical experience, systematic research, and poetry, helping the reader to see the poetry in each person's striving for growth and intimate connection. This book that grows out his own teaching and clinical experience will prove most useful for trainees in all the mental health disciplines, both in the USA and abroad. -- Bennett Simon, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (Cambridge Health Alliance); Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society Tom Beresford has written a wonderful book for anyone interested in the complexities of the human mind. He brings superior teaching skills and thirty years of clinical experience together with the talents of a poet and the literary knowledge of an English professor. Each literary and clinical vignette used to illuminate unconscious coping mechanisms is a gripping, lucid, believable and compelling departure from what leads many of us away from psychoanalytic writing. This is a book for both beach and academic library reading. --George E. Vaillant MD, author of The Life and Lives of the Harvard Grad Study Tom Beresford shows us clearly that psychodynamic assessment can be carried out reliably on the basis of observable behavior. In his view adaptive mechanisms are flexible and creative means of coping as well as possible, rather than involuntary defenses. His positive psychobiological approach is lucidly described with insightful case histories and other examples from writers as diverse as Homer, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. Psychiatry residents and anyone else who wants to understand human motives will delight in its content and style. -- C. Robert Cloninger, MD, Renard Professor of Psychiatry & Genetics, Washington University & Author of Feeling Good: The Science of Well-being With Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms Dr. Beresford has presented to us a compassionate, humane, eminently readable and clinically useful labor of love. He gives us a generous mixture of clinical experience, systematic research, and poetry, helping the reader to see the poetry in each person's striving for growth and intimate connection. This book that grows out his own teaching and clinical experience will prove most useful for trainees in all the mental health disciplines, both in the USA and abroad. -- Bennett Simon, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (Cambridge Health Alliance); Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society Author InformationDr. Beresford is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Trained in psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he has focused his clinical and scientific career on the psychiatric problems that medical and surgical patients encounter, whether in adjusting to illness or in returning to normal brain functioning. His interest in psychological adaptive mechanisms comes from applying scientific methods to clinically relevant human behavior and brain function. He has developed both clinical and teaching methods to understand and use adaptive mechanism recognition with greater, and more practical, precision. Dr. Beresford is internationally known for his work in alcoholism and liver transplantation where he developed a clinical method for evaluating alcohol dependent patients for this life saving procedure. His current projects include studies of psychological adaptive mechanisms in the differential diagnosis and treatment of medical/psychiatric disorders that include cancer. He also studies biological mechanisms that promote alcohol abstinence, and medicinal treatment of traumatic brain injury. In addition to his medical interests, Dr. Beresford earned an M.A. degree in English literature from Boston College and won a Wallace Stegner Fellowship In Creative Writing (poetry) at Stanford University. Most recently, he held a Fellowship from the Council of Deans of the American Association of Medical Colleges Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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