Not just for professionals who diagnose- The PDM will help you UNDERSTANDSeptember 1, 2008 An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth I Love You Madly! On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth, second edition Yes it is a masterpiece in nosology, but it is not just for professionals who need to diagnose for a living. ANYONE who wants to understand personality- I mean the FULL range of personality should read as least pages 1 to 31! You will read the non-dogmatic culmination of over 100 years of research, case study and wisdom that is applicable to all theoretic orienations. I have taught the PDM to non and even anti-psychodynamic psychologists. What happens? Except for very few defensive types, the all loved it. [...]
goodJuly 31, 2008 The PDM is very helpful and a good complement to the DSM-IV. Every good clinician should consult it...
A magnificent compendiumMarch 27, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this manual a useful resource for the evaluation and treatment of our consultants. It's also an invaluable aid for teaching psychotherapy. As it presents personality traits as a continuum, with emphasis in healthy functional patterns and healthy personality, the comprehension of psychopatology results a dynamic process, not a cold list of symtoms.
Extremely informativeNovember 7, 2007 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have found the manual very detailed and informative. A very useful resource to add to my reference library.
Very good complement for DSMJune 1, 2007 9 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you're anything like me (by like "me" I mean you're not necessarily fond of the DSMs) chances are you'd like this alternate classification. All of the heavyweight psychoanalysis organizations joined together to produce a diagnostic manual that takes into account the subjective experience of the patient, beyond the description of a general diagnosis. The reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because I'd like it to have important information on transference and countertransference. Being created by the psychoanalytic organizations you'd expect it to include some notes on the Transference/Countertransferece experience in general for each pathology. But the truth is that this manual is actually useful even for therapists outside the psychoanalytic field, so the transferences/countertransference would have probably narrowed the group of psychotherapists it can reach being written the way it is.
