Neurotic Styles

This new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunningly defining conceptualizations of the Obsessive-Compulsive, Paranoid, Hysterical, and Impulsive ways of being.

David Shapiro, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Graduate Faculty, at the New School. He is the author of Neurotic Styles, Autonomy and Rigid Character, and Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character. He practices psychotherapy in New York City.

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(22)

Obsessive-Compulsive Style

23

(31)

Rigidity

The Mode of Activity and the Distortion of the Experience of Autonomy

The Loss of Reality

Paranoid Style

54

(54)

Formal Qualities of Suspicious Thinking and Cognition

The Paranoid Loss of Reality

The General Paranoid Problem of Autonomy

Projection: Noncognitive Aspects

The Relationship between Paranoid and Obsessive-Compulsive Styles

Hysterical Style

108

(26)

Repression and the Hysterical Style of Cognition

Hysterical Romance and Fantasy

Hysterical Emotions

Impulsive Styles

134

(23)

The Subjective Experience of ``Impulse''

The Quality of Impulsive Action

The Impulsive Mode of Cognition

Impulsive Styles: Variants

157

(19)

Some Psychopathic Traits

The Passive, ``Weak'' Character

General and Theoretical Considerations

176

(25)

The Initial Organizing Configuration

Instinctual Drives and Style Development

The Control and Regulative Function of Styles

Style and Defense

The Defensive Motives for Neurotic Styles

Index

201

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