Clinicians' emotional responses and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual adult personality disorders: A clinically relevant empirical investigation

Psychotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 238-246

  Gazzillo, Francesco ^a   Lingiardi, Vittorio ^a   Del Corno, Franco ^b   Genova, Federica ^a   Bornstein, Robert F ^c   Gordon, Robert M ^b   McWilliams, Nancy ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Adelphi University ^*  (United States)

^c ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Countertransference; PDC; PDM; PDP; Personality assessment; Therapists' emotional responses

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DSM-IV-TR; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MOOD DISORDER; NARCISSISM; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DIAGNOSTIC PROTOTYPE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHODYNAMIC DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; ITALY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84929504312     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038799     Document Type: Article

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