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May 10, 2013, 10:13 AM
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Location: USA
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I’ve read most of the book and also think it makes a lot of sense. I’ve seen it recommended for personality disorders, but not tried it personally.
The best “explanation” I have found for my (former, hopefully on-its-way-to-being-OK) OCPD, later PDNOS is in Heinz Kohut’s theory of the self. His book Restoration of the Self is good, or a good synopsis, with an expansion of her own, is in three parts starting here:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/04/narcissism-and-society-part-i.html
With regard specifically to AvPD specifically, it seems closest to what Dr. Sanity describes in Part III as a condition “When the Grandiose Self is repressed”.
That’s not all the “explanation” and schema theory provides a greater elaboration of the types of difficulties people can have, but I wonder if at the core there isn’t some problem with the sense of self in all PD’s. For what it’s worth, the book Disorders of the Self by Marshall Silverstein has some interesting theories along this line, though it’s hard for me to see how we as people WITH PD's could use it.
Last edited by here today; May 10, 2013 at 10:30 AM.
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