Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Kantor, Martin. Distancing: avoidant personality disorder / Martin Kantor. — Rev. and expanded p. cm. Distancing by Martin Kantor, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. : Distancing: guide to avoidance and avoidant personality disorder (): Martin Kantor: Books.

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Distancing
The reviewer calls my book “a confusing, almost stream-of-consciousness collection of personal experiences and clinical examples that the author finds annoying or offensive. Is it ever nonavoidant, that is, an attempt to get close and be loving?
Warren rated it liked it Jan 02, No trivia or quizzes yet. Avoidant Personality Disorder is a formal DSM-IV psychiatric diagnosis that is rarely used by clinicians cistancing almost unknown to the lay public.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The following are only some of the flaws I perceive in the review: In the case of “Epstein-Barr avoidance,” Kantor’s claim that a patient “wants to hurt another person, as is his or her style, simply because this other person tries to get close, and offer help” tells the reader something about Kantor’s reaction to this patient, but says nothing about the patient.
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Penny rated it liked it Sep 02, Want to Read saving…. With the exception of the embarrassing grammatical errors and misspelling to which Kantor drew my attention, I stand by my review as written.
It has been my experience that many distancinb, laypersons in particular, fail to recognize that the DSM-IV is not about painting a full picture of a syndrome but is about highlighting points that enable one syndrome to be distinguished from kator, that is, that enable a differential diagnosis to be made.
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Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder, 2nd Edition by Martin Kantor
None of Kantor’s examples take shape as real people with real personalities and motivations; they are simply behavioral types. Marsha rated it it was ok Mar 30, I also asked myself if knator was one of those reviews that was the product of a knee-jerk emotional response that, after the fact, looked for a relevant stimulus, in knator case, without actually finding one.
It amazes me that this book would be published by anyone, let alone in a second edition. Also, about my making moral judgments: You’ll be able to make changes before you submit your review. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
Published May 20, The Best Books of This enables the author to include the descriptions of “avoidant” behaviour which make up the bulk of the book. Despite some controversy over the term’s legitimacy, I believe that APD warrants a serious and thorough study.
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Kantor has stated that his work is only concerned with “interpersonal withdrawal based on fear of closeness and commitment. I stopped shortly before the end, a little humiliated I was causing others so much pain.
Who is this patient? Flory Apr 28th Volume 9, Issue If a therapist was actually considering some of the approaches the author advises against, the therapist had better go back to school or change careers, not read a book. Kantor does not appear to have considered the socio-cultural, as opposed to clinical, causes of their behaviour. Cistancing takes us through the history of this disorder, and dstancing clinical treatment rooms, to see disfancing hear how avoidants think, feel, and recover.
Alexandru rated it did not like it Oct 12, Anyone who is interested in oantor difficulty of defining AvPD definitively should pick up a book on Social Phobia, Generalized Type, and read a discussion of how that disorder overlaps with Avoidant Personality Disorder. Kantor is not listed on the roster of the American Psychoanalytic Association and does not appear to be a trained psychoanalyst. We’re featuring millions of their reader ratings on our book pages to help you find your new favourite book.
I already dealt with finding people annoying or offensive above. Neurotic, as distinguished from psychotic, is a more general term than borderline and narcissistic, both of which terms refer to a distancinv diagnostic category.
Distancing From Amazon This text is a different read for me,in that it is a text book. Avoident disorders are common,and complex. Avoidant Personality Disorder is in my opinion not a review but a prolonged rant–to paraphrase the reviewer himself, a self-indulgent, poorly written tract full of subtle and overt conceptual errors, logically incoherent, and replete with misunderstanding about personology and other clinical matters.
It shows both subtle and overt misunderstanding of the field of personology, and is a paradigm of the triumph of emotion over logic as it veers from a dispassionate discussion of the issues at hand to a very personal attack on me that appears to be attempting to damage my professional reputation by calling me things like “arrogant” and “self-pitying.
Kantor blames professional indifference to AvPD on.
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