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Neurotic Styles (The Austen Riggs Centerseries) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Shapiro
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 29413
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 046509502X
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89075
EAN: 9780465095025
ASIN: 046509502X
Publication Date: January 1, 1965
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Condition: Very sound clean book but it does have a bend to the front corner and pages. Remainder mark.All books are shipped the next business day and carefully packaged.
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A classic study of four kinds of neuroses--obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, hysterical, and impulsive--and the special characteristics of each.
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 Fantastic book October 8, 2008
R. Dempsey (Portage, Mi United States)
It is hard to follow at times. However, it helps the reader get the feeling of being a person who has a neurotic style of dealing with the world. The book is not critical but explanatory of the different styles most people have at least to some extent.
Ahead of its time and still useful October 24, 2007
Donald Kirson (San Diego, CA USA)
I am surprised at the wide range of reviewer reactions the book elicited. I love the book and still refer to it, especially the "hysterical" style (now officially called histrionic personality disorder).
Shapiro attempts to capture the characteristic behaviors, perceptions and interpersonal dynamics of each style. He succeeds, and does so without using arcaine terms or invoking abstract, academic theories.
Don
 a poorly written pomposity August 18, 2007
drollere (Sebastopol, CA United States)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
i read this book two decades ago in preparation for my graduate studies in psychology. i thoroughly disliked it at the time for its digressive, repetitious and fatuous style. i have never read a book before or since that was written with its particular combination of hysterical imagination and obsessive compulsive hairsplitting. impulsive personalities will gnash their teeth in anguish. and after i had the peculiar annoyance of reading this book -- something so awful i can vividly remember it twenty years later -- the whole subjective and flimsy concept of "neurosis" was swept out of the professional clinical nomenclature, which therefore makes dr. shapiro's wearying little compendium of clinical anecdotes digressive, repetitious, fatuous and irrelevant. "neurotic styles" is an anachronism alongside the bathetic science fiction of sigmund freud ... but at least freud knew how to write.
 A Seminal Work with Stylistic Problems January 5, 2006
Dr. Gary Seeman (San Francisco, CA USA)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I agree with Peter Dunn, M.D., about the importance of this work and its historical place in understanding psychopathology. Please read his excellent review. However, Dr. Shapiro's writing style is an obstacle to understanding during a first reading. He needs a good editor. The book reads as if Dr. Shapiro dictated the text, mulling over what he was trying to say. Thus, it contains many turgid, run-on sentences. I often had to read a sentence again to understand its full meaning. This distracted me from following the overall concepts. The chapter on impulsive styles is especially repetitive. The stylistic difficulties that are distracting on a first reading don't get in the way as much the second time, when one is trying to remember key elements. At this point, Dr. Shapiro's parsing of shades of meaning offers subtle insights. Those insights could have been conveyed the first time by breaking one sentence into two or three, but the book is what it is. I recommend it, if you're willing to do the work. In comparison, I recommend the works of Glen Gabbard, M.D., whose writing is especially lucid.
 An analytic approach June 18, 2004
Bartolomucci Fabrizio (Lido di Castel Fusano, Rome Italy)
5 out of 23 found this review helpful
This review is based on the Italian translation of the text.The book portrays each style in vivid and easily identifiable tones: perhaps even too much so as I found myself insterted in all styles but, possibly, for the hysterical one... What was a bit baffling is the use of an ineffable "normal behavior" that sometimes appeared as the one projected on a Buddha or a Jesus Christ. Very little, to conclude, is said on how to tackle each style in order to help and overcome it, but possibly that was not in the scope of the book.
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