Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Third Edition (pdm-3)

Fully updated and restructured with 70% new material, PDM-3 presents important advances in multiaxial mental health diagnosis from a psychodynamic perspective, in dialogue with neuroscientific and cognitive-behavioral perspectives. Used worldwide, this authoritative manual offers an empirically based, clinically useful alternative or supplement to DSM and ICD descriptive and symptom-oriented diagnoses. PDM-3 guides the practitioner to develop a multilayered dimensional understanding of each patient, leading to a rich case formulation and flexible treatment plan. Leading international experts systematically address personality functioning, mental capacities, and symptomatic impairment in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, including jargon-free descriptions and clinical examples. The companion website provides additional, in depth case illustrations and five downloadable and reproducible PDM-derived rating scales.

New to This Edition

• Restructured to follow development chronologically.
• Conceptual refinements, updated assessment tools, and expanded case material.
• Chapters on the transition from infancy to childhood and from adolescence to adulthood.
• Chapters on psychological experiences throughout the lifespan that are not captured by a diagnosis, but may require clinical attention.

Supporting associations include the International Psychoanalytical Association, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and other organizations.

PDM-2 won the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Clinical Category)

Introduction, Vittorio Lingiardi & Nancy McWilliams
I. Infancy and Early Childhood
1. Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood--IEC 0–3, Anna Maria Speranza & Miriam Steele
2. From Infancy to Childhood, Anna Maria Speranza
II. Childhood
3. Profile of Mental Functioning in Childhood--MC Axis, Norka Malberg, Anna Maria Speranza, & Alexandro Fortunato
4. Levels of Emerging Personality Patterns and Difficulties in Childhood--PC Axis, Norka Malberg, Anna Maria Speranza, & Alexandro Fortunato
5. Child Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience--SC Axis, Anna Maria Speranza, Norka Malberg, & Alexandro Fortunato
6. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention in Childhood, Anna Maria Speranza, Alexandro Fortunato, & Norka Malberg
III. Adolescence
7. Profile of Mental Functioning in Adolescents--MA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Norka Malberg
8. Emerging Personality Styles and Disorders in Adolescence--PA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Carla Sharp
9. Adolescent Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience--SA Axis, Annalisa Tanzilli & Mario Speranza
10. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention in Adolescence, Annalisa Tanzilli & Guido Giovanardi
11. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Assessment in the Early Adult Years, Annalisa Tanzilli
IV. Adulthood
12. Personality Styles and Disorders--P Axis, Nancy McWilliams & Jonathan Shedler
13. Profile of Mental Functioning--M Axis, Vittorio Lingiardi, Laura Muzi, & Robert F. Bornstein
14. Symptom Patterns: The Subjective Experience--S Axis, Emanuela Mundo,Laura Muzi, & Vittorio Lingiardi
15. Psychological Experiences That May Require Clinical Attention, Vittorio Lingiardi & Nancy McWilliams
V. Older Adults
16. When Does Later Life Begin?, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin
17. Profile of Mental Functioning in Older Adults--MOA Axis, Franco Del Corno & Daniel Plotkin