Changing Character: Short Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy for Restructuring Defense...

by Leigh McCullough Vaillant

The mechanism of emotional change is central to the field of mental health. Emotional change is necessary for healing the long-standing pain of character pathology, yet is the least studied and most misunderstood area in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Changing Character at its heart is about emotion--how to draw it out, recognize it and make it conscious, follow its lead and, equally important, use cognition to guide, control, and direct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465077927
• ISBN13: 9780465077922
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"