Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Paperback

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations demystifies the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders. It offers clear and practical advice on how to differentiate and treat clients who have made Borderline, Narcissistic, or Schizoid adaptations. Elinor Greenberg begins with an overview of the topic of personality disorders, reframes these disorders as adaptations, and then explains the treatment interventions that work best for each type of adaptation. Later chapters describe how to do specific interventions that deal with commonly encountered treatment issues such as: such as: "How to undo a Narcissistic shame-based self-hating depression," "How to judge a Schizoid client's sense of interpersonal safety from their dreams," and "How to help Borderline clients reach their goals." Each type of intervention is explained in detail, ample clinical examples are given, as is how and when to utilize the method in the client's treatment. Both beginning therapists and experienced clinicians alike will find this book a useful resource that will expand their understanding and effectiveness with this often challenging group of clients.

Elinor Greenberg, Ph.D., CGP, is a psychologist and an internationally renowned Gestalt therapy trainer who specializes in teaching the diagnosis and treatment of Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid adaptations. Dr. Greenberg is the author of many articles on this topic, including: "Healing the Borderline," "When Insight Hurts," "Undoing the Shame Spiral," and "Goals and the Borderline Client." She is Vice President of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty to the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, and is an Associate Editor of Gestalt Review. In addition to her extensive Gestalt therapy credentials, Dr. Greenberg is a graduate of and former faculty member of The Masterson Institute, a post-graduate training institute where she taught and supervised students in a psychoanalytically-oriented object relations approach to the theory and treatment of personality disorders. She is a certified Ericksonian hypnotherapist and is in the National Registry for Certified Group Psychotherapists. Dr. Greenberg's hobby is the study of pre-psychoanalytic systems of personal growth, such as Kabbalah and the Western Mystery School tradition.