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'After reading this book, therapists...will likely find their diagnostic skills enhanced, their conceptualization efforts more sophisticated, experience a heightened sense of empathy for their patients' difficulties in living, and find their treatment efforts more efficacious.' - Contemporary Psychology
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"Building on Harry Stack Sullivan's thesis that interpersonal behavior rather than symptoms should provide the framework for a fruitful psychiatric diagnosis, Dr. Lorna Benjamin has developed a sophisticated system, the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB). The Interpersonal Circle on which the system is based has a longer history but Dr. Benjamin's impressive achievement is unequaled in terms of its scientific rigor, clinical penetration, and comprehensiveness. SASB has given rise to a growing body of research aimed at an improved description and classification of the personality disorders. Thus, Dr. Benjamin's system provides a powerful alternative to the DSM-III-R and the forthcoming DSM-IV. An added and singularly important virtue is its clear relevance for psychotherapy. The book will predictably have a powerful impact on psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the coming years. It is a superb accomplishment, a true labor of love.--Hans H. Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
"Benjamin has written the right book at the right time. Whether one talks about Axis II driving Axis I, intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, or causal determinants, there is a consensus that a focus on patients' interpersonal behavior patterns is central to the therapeutic change process. As a result, there is a real need for clear guidelines that can be used by the practicing clinician, and that can provide the psychotherapy researcher with meaningful, testable hypotheses. Lorna Benjamin's incisive book fulfills such a need.
Using extensive clinical experience and research backing, Benjamin has masterfully translated DSM categories of personality disorders into observable, conceptually meaningful dimensions. It is indeed refreshing to read a book such as hers that is both empirically sound and clinically sophisticated. What is also particularly impressive is that the treatment implications described by Benjamin have relevance for therapists of varying orientatio --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Benjamin has written the right book at the right time. Whether one talks about Axis II driving Axis I, intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, or causal determinants, there is a consensus that a focus on patients' interpersonal behavior patterns is central to the therapeutic change process. As a result, there is a real need for clear guidelines that can be used by the practicing clinician, and that can provide the psychotherapy researcher with meaningful, testable hypotheses. Lorna Benjamin's incisive book fulfills such a need.
Using extensive clinical experience and research backing, Benjamin has masterfully translated DSM categories of personality disorders into observable, conceptually meaningful dimensions. It is indeed refreshing to read a book such as hers that is both empirically sound and clinically sophisticated. What is also particularly impressive is that the treatment implications described by Benjamin have relevance for therapists of varying orientatio --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The other of this book is a leader in the field and will help you understand from an academic and practical viewpoint what personality disorders are all about. She very clearly explains the inadiquacies of the types of disorder in describing the real condition of real people. She includes cases that illustrate beautifully the problems that are the roots of personality disorders. A very human but scientific approach to some very debilitating conditions of mind.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Benjamin is a rare clinician: one equally as comfortable in the researcher's as well as psychotherapist's chair. Put bluntly, her book is a tour de force. Regardless of theoretical orientation, psychotherapists will better understand the necessary relationship elements that provide healing for persons who fit Axis II pigeonholes. While initially difficult to grasp, SASB is unbelievably practical, and provides guidance in those moments of clinical despair (that both patient and therapist can experience). Particularly useful, in my view, is her discussion of both the origin of one's introject (self-system) and the wishes/fears people with different Axis II disorders bring to the interpersonal table. In my experience, patients find her model a structure of sanity, amidst a culture of faith healers, repressed memory practitioners, and tarot card readers. Rating: "A PERFECT 10."
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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
A book by and for the psychotherapist/scientist-practitioner
8 May 1998
Format:Hardcover
Benjamin is a rare clinician: one equally as comfortable in the researcher's as well as psychotherapist's chair. Put bluntly, her book is a tour de force. Regardless of theoretical orientation, psychotherapists will better understand the necessary relationship elements that provide healing for persons who fit Axis II pigeonholes. While initially difficult to grasp, SASB is unbelievably practical, and provides guidance in those moments of clinical despair (that both patient and therapist can experience). Particularly useful, in my view, is her discussion of both the origin of one's introject (self-system) and the wishes/fears people with different Axis II disorders bring to the interpersonal table. In my experience, patients find her model a structure of sanity, amidst a culture of faith healers, repressed memory practitioners, and tarot card readers. Rating: "A PERFECT 10."
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Work of art
25 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
benjamin is a wonderful theoretician, therapist, writer, and lecturer--a true asset to the field. here, she tackles personality disorders with skill and confidence. these methods work! particularly helpful to me were the strategies for handling the intensity of patients with borderline personality disorder. she takes the notion of emotional containment to a whole new level and provides practical, patient-honoring, and self-respecting ways of conveying empathic boundaries. a very matter-of-fact approach that manages intensity in a compassionate yet firm way. one of the best books--if not THE best book--available for treating personality disorders.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The "bible" of Axis II
14 May 2010
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Since graduate school, this book has been a mainstay of my practice. I give it as a gift often, to clinicians of all stages of development. The Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) technology contained herein makes order out of the seemingly arbitrary diagnostic categories of the DSM-IV. The interpersonal framework is capable of capturing nuance and complexity and provides amazing predictive power in anticipating what otherwise might seem totally irrational behavior.
L.S. Benjamin is a true genius of the healing arts. Her breadth and depth are amazing.
This material takes some investment to master, but it will be richly rewarded.
L.S. Benjamin is a true genius of the healing arts. Her breadth and depth are amazing.
This material takes some investment to master, but it will be richly rewarded.
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