The Personality Disorders Through the Lens of Attachment ... (ISBN 1932462341)

The Neurobiology of Attachment !!:
Dr. Masterson does it again, this time by offering a "cutting edge" new clinical paradigm in which personality disorders and their fluctuating mood states are best understood through the lens of their difficulty with attachment. This indeed provides an alternative to a profession that has gone pharmacologically mad without appropriate clinical and theoretical understanding of human behavior.

Sure to be a Classic:
This book represents a synthesis of decades of research and clinical experience treating persons with disorders of the self. Here a true Elder Analyst reviews the work of his life and gives an excellent perspective of the field. The book integrates current research from the field of Attachment Theory and Neurobiology with a Developmental, Self, and Object Relations Theory. The book goes beyond theory to present practical clinical tools for treatment of the persons with Narcissistic, Borderline, and Schizoid Personality Disorders: a population once thought to be untreatable.

Best Explanation on Disorders of the Self:
Dr. Masterson's object relations theory and theory on disorders of the self offers answers to the pathology of personality. His in-depth description of the origin of disorders of the self gives the reader an excellent explanation as well as an extraordinary upgrade on integrating the dynamic of individuals facing the challenge of emotional dysregulation, attachment, individuation and interpersonal dysfunction by incorporating neurobiology, developmental and object relations theories. This book is a well-crafted text containing chapters written by faculty trained by him that will help the reader understand the origins of psychological and emotional suffering leading to a pathway of improvement of disorders of the self. A definite collector's book.

Latest Masterson's work:
This book unravels exactly what the title sets out to do. It is an investigative discourse into the fundamendal developmental phase of the Mother-child dyad. It gives biological evidence as to the importance of Neural networks being established "through the lens of ATTACHENT THEORY" The work rests a lot on Bowlby's earlier work - but takes the empirical evidence of bonding/or lack thereof and it's neurobiological function in the psychological growth of 'THE SELF'. It offers a very convincing argument to the existence of Neural deficits in various PERSONALITY DISORDERS. Excellent!