Posted by emmanuel98 on August 27, 2010, at 20:13:55
In reply to Re: Is It Depression or Bipolar? » ed_uk2010, posted by violette on August 26, 2010, at 19:25:49
I think good therapists see the DSM criteria for personality disorders as a heuristic -- useful for thinking about how certain traits cluster and emerge, but not very useful in describing actual people. Glen Gabbard, as you mention, is great this way. His textbook Psychodynamic Therapy in Clinical Practice, uses the DSM as an outline, but his case studies and dynamic explanations are much more nuanced.
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