Description

Edited by Lingiardi Vittorio; Edited by McWilliams Nancy

Fully updated and restructured with 70% new material, PDM-3 presents important advances in multiaxial mental health diagnosis from a psychodynamic perspective, in dialogue with neuroscientific and cognitive-behavioral perspectives. Used worldwide, this authoritative manual offers an empirically based, clinically useful alternative or supplement to DSM and ICD descriptive and symptom-oriented diagnoses. PDM-3 guides the practitioner to develop a multilayered dimensional understanding of each patient, leading to a rich case formulation and flexible treatment plan. Leading international experts systematically address personality functioning, mental capacities, and symptomatic impairment in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, including jargon-free s and clinical examples. The companion website provides additional, in depth case illustrations and five downloadable and reproducible PDM-derived rating scales.

New to This Edition

Restructured to follow development chronologically.
Conceptual refinements, updated assessment tools, and expanded case material.
Chapters on the transition from infancy to childhood and from adolescence to adulthood.
Chapters on psychological experiences throughout the lifespan that are not captured by a diagnosis, but may require clinical attention.

Supporting associations include the International Psychoanalytical Association, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and other organizations.

PDM-2 won the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Clinical Category)

Table of contents:

Introduction, Vittorio Lingiardi & Nancy McWilliams
I. Infancy and Early Childhood
1. Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood–IEC 0–3, Anna Maria Speranza & Miriam Steele
2. From Infancy to Childhood, Anna Maria Speranza
II. Childhood
3. Profile of Mental Functioning in Childhood–MC Axis, Norka Malberg, Anna Maria Speranza, & Alexandro Fortunato
4. Levels of Emerging Personality Patterns and Difficulties in Childhood–PC Axis, Norka Malberg, Anna Maria Speranza, & Alexandro Fortunato
5. Child Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience–SC Axis, Anna Maria Speranza, Norka Malberg, & Alexandro Fortunato
6. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention in Childhood, Anna Maria Speranza, Alexandro Fortunato, & Norka Malberg
III. Adolescence
7. Profile of Mental Functioning in Adolescents–MA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Norka Malberg
8. Emerging Personality Styles and Disorders in Adolescence–PA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Carla Sharp
9. Adolescent Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience–SA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Mario Speranza
10. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention in Adolescence, Annalisa Tanzilli & Guido Giovanardi
11. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Assessment in the Early Adult Years, Annalisa Tanzilli
IV. Adulthood
12. Personality Styles and Disorders–P Axis, Nancy McWilliams & Jonathan Shedler
13. Profile of Mental Functioning–M Axis, Vittorio Lingiardi, Laura Muzi, & Robert F. Bornstein
14. Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience–S Axis, Emanuela Mundo,Laura Muzi, & Vittorio Lingiardi
15. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention, Vittorio Lingiardi & Nancy McWilliams
V. Older Adults
16. When Does Later Life Begin?, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin
17. Profile of Mental Functioning in Older Adults–MOA Axis, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin