Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

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Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text. The second edition of this landmark book introduces its readers to basic concepts of psychoanalytic diagnosis, personality organization, and "defensive processes" and then applies those concepts to specific clinical entities. It is remarkable both for what it retains of value from the first edition and for what it introduces as useful "updates" in this second edition. As would be expected in a single-author textbook, a value of the book is consistency.