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Offers a history of the field and reviews of influential theories of broad and specific normal-abnormal behaviors, widely-used assessment measures, recent methodological advances, and current interpersonal strategies for changing problematic behaviors. Original contributions come from several well-known psychologists and psychiatrists. The volume has wide appeal as a graduate text for academicians, professionals, and students interested in the study of normal and abnormal interpersonal behavior. The book will help define and shape the field as it evolves in the first half of the 21 st century.

Leonard M. Horowitz, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Stanford University. With Hans Strupp and Michael Lambert, he directed an APA task force on creating a core battery of standardized tests for evaluating the outcome of psychotherapy, resulting in the book Measuring Patient Changes in Mood, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders: Toward a Core Battery (APA, 1997). His test, the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems, was published in 2000 by the Psychological Corporation, and his book, Interpersonal Foundations of Psychopathology in 2004. He was president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research from 1992 to 1993 and president of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research from 1999 to 2000.

Stephen Strack, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the VA Ambulatory Care Center in Los Angeles, CA, and holds faculty appointments at Alliant International University, Los Angeles, and Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena, CA. He is the author or editor of nine books and test manuals, including Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality (2^nd ed., 2006) and the Handbook of Personology and Psychopathology (2005). He has also published over 50 chapters and journal articles. An internationally-recognized expert in personality theory and assessment, he is on the editorial board of four scientific journals and is a Fellow of the APA and Society for Personality Assessment.

Foreword
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
An Attachment-Theory Framework for Conceptualizing Interpersonal Behavior
Relatedness and Self-definition in Normal and Disrupted Personality Development
Origins and Applications of the Interpersonal Circumplex
Evolution, Life History Theory, and Personality
The Five-Factor Model, Five-Factor Theory, and Interpersonal Psychology
Basic Interpersonal Processes and Mechanisms
Interpersonal Motivation
Interpersonal Complementarity
Empathic Accuracy and Inaccuracy
Person Perception, Dispositional Inferences, and Social Judgment
The Role of Nonverbal Communication in Interpersonal Relations
Personality and Interpersonal Interactions
Trust as Motivational Gate-Keeper in Adult Romantic Relationships
An Attachment-Theory Perspective on Social Support in Close Relationships
Conceptualizing Relationship Violence as a Dyadic Process
Differentiating the Dark Triad Within the Interpersonal Circumplex
Social Allergens
Social Domains, Personality, and Interpersonal Functioning
Assessment of Interpersonal Characteristics
Circular Reasoning About Circular Assessment
Circumplex Measures of Interpersonal Constructs
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB)
Interview Measures of Interpersonal Functioning and Quality of Object Relations
Psychopathology and Health
Interpersonal Diagnosis of Psychopathology
Personality Disorders
An Interactional Model for Interpersonal Process and Trauma
Depressive Disorders and Interpersonal Processes
Interpersonal Processes in the Anxiety Disorders
An Interpersonal Perspective on Risk for Coronary Heart Disease
Interpersonal Therapeutic Interventions
Interpersonal Issues in Treating Children and Adolescents
The Therapeutic Alliance: Research and Theory
Interpersonal Interventions for Maintaining an Alliance
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
Group Therapies
Conclusion
Summary and Concluding Remarks
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Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions

Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions

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