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Hindi International Journal of Mental Health & PsychiatryISSN: 2471-4372
Alistair D. Sweet Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Personality; Disorder; Structure; Attachment; Psychodynamic
MSSc, Dip.Couns (PsyD), MBACP, Queen
Biography
"Alistair D. Sweet MA (PsyA), MSSc, Dip.Couns (PsyD), MBACP is a Senior Psychotherapist and Head of Clinical Services with Addiction NI (Previously Northern Ireland Community Addiction Service/ NICAS) and a Lecturer and Clinical Supervisor in the School of Psychology, Queen’s University, Belfast. Mr Sweet joined NICAS in 2001, as a Senior Therapist and became Head of Clinical Services in 2009. Mr Sweet holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychoanalytic Studies (QUB), a Master of Social Science degree with distinction in Criminology (QUB) and a Diploma in Psychodynamic Therapeutic Counselling.
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Personality Structures and Chronic Childhood Relational Trauma: Psychodynamic and Attachment based Perspectives that Challenge the Restricted Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
Author(s): Alistair D. Sweet
With the imminent publication of DSM V growing ever closer, the author suggests that headline diagnostic categories, such as narcissistic personality, histrionic personality or the ubiquitous borderline personality may actually be unhelpful to the clinician, who wishes to reach a deeper understanding of the factors shaping character pathology. The proposed revision of diagnostic criteria for personality disorder, in the forthcoming DSM V, to further emphasise traits within nosographical personality categories, appears to remain limited in conceptual scope.
The psychoanalytic concept of personality structure is considered more malleable, from a conceptual perspective, in that it may enable the clinician to both describe an... view more»
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