Autonomy And Rigid Character

David Shapiro
Hachette Book Group (Perseus)
 9780465005680
0-465-00568-3

Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.