Josephs draws upon the full range of psychoanalytic thought to
develop a comprehensive and integrative understanding of the
character disorder. His graphic descriptions of each syndrome make
the people come alive, and they promote our empathy for the copying
strategies entailed by character pathology.
*George Striker, Ph.D., The Derner Institute, Adelphi
University*
Character and Self-Experience is a heroic effort to integrate
psychoanalytic perspectives on character into a unified framework
encompassing earlier, diverse views. Joseph's framework, centering
on the multiple dimensions of self-experience, provides the basis
for an experience-near typology of character that is directly
applicable to therapeutic practice. This rich, comprehensive, and
lucidly written text is a major contribution to psychoanalytic
characterology that should be of great value to students and
practitioners of psychoanalytic therapy.
*Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Institute of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles*
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