Character Styles
By:
Stephen M. Johnson
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5
Description:
Presenting an integrated personality theory, this book shows how basic existential and developmental issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorders, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of character styles. It details both an external description of these personalities along the continuum of psychic structure and the internal experience that makes human behavior understandable and worthy of empathy.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Not Quite Bioenergetics - The book is scholarly rather than insightful. I missed the passion of any engagement, unlike Hilton's Relational Somatic Psychotherapy. Somewhat helpful
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
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Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Good buy - Johnson's characterological developmental theory, basically an object-relations theory, links six character types to developmental obstacles and frustrated needs. Character types can be more or less healthy. At the more pathological end of development character types manifest as personality disorders, at the adaptive end as character styles. Johnson describes how character styles represent the child's attempt to accommodate to deficient parenting relationships and implied relational meanings. Treatment goals are framed in terms of cognitive, affective and behavioural objectives. A useful compliment to more purely cognitive approaches, e.g. Young's schema therapy.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Excellent book for understanding what is behind the behavior - This book has been extremely helpful to me in understanding the inner feelings of different character types. When I have difficulty knowing what to discuss, I will ask about these kinds of feelings and they have been so useful in describing to people what they might be feeling. I have recommended it to several colleagues as well. I wish it had been required in grad school. Very well done by a man who seems quite kind and understanding of deeper layers of the self.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A Masterpiece - This is a Masterpiece integrating a century of psychology. Special attention is given to the etiology of every character formation.
"Know thyself" has suddenly become more accessible.
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