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In Personality Disorders, Dr. Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his approach to working with clients presenting with the spectrum of personality disorders and with clinical syndromes such as obsessive–compulsive or anxiety disorders. Dr. Magnavita uses personality-guided relational psychotherapy, a form of therapy that describes personality as encompassing four domains: biological, interpersonal, relational, and sociocultural. In this session, Dr. Magnavita works with a recently married woman in her 20s who was neglected and abused as a child. The client is experiencing symptoms of anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder. Dr. Magnavita assesses her defenses and personality structure and begins to help her to see how she has coped with her negative childhood experiences and how these coping strategies affect her present life. Read a review of this title from the PsycCRITIQUES database (PDF: 65KB)
Personality-guided relational psychotherapy offers a unified framework that encompasses four domains of human functioning to conceptualize personality dysfunction and focus treatment. These four levels begin at the microlevel of analysis and become increasingly more macroscopic in focus, and can be conceptualized as nested aspects of relational systems. The four levels are (1) biological–intrapsychic matrix, (2) dyadic–interpersonal matrix, (3) relational–triadic matrix, and (4) sociocultural–familial matrix.
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in active clinical practice. A diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), he is the recipient of APA's Distinguished Contribution to Practice Award for 2006 for his work in unifying psychotherapy. He authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach, Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders, and a textbook, Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality, and was the volume editor of the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic/Object Relations: Volume 1 and the Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice. His most recent volume is Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach. In addition, Dr. Magnavita is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Psychology, In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. He is an affiliate professor in clinical psychology at the University of Hartford and is a clinical affiliate at Hartford Hospital.
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