Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, PDM-2
A diagnostic framework built on personality, mental functioning and subjective experience, offered as a counterpart to the DSM.
Edited by Vittorio Lingiardi and Nancy McWilliams, PDM-2 sets out a taxonomy that reads a patient along three coordinated dimensions: the level and type of personality organization, a graded profile of mental functioning that rates capacities such as regulation, reflection, and defensive operation, and the symptom patterns as the patient actually lives them from the inside. The manual runs this scheme separately for infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life, so the same person is described differently at each stage of development.
The orientation is toward formulation rather than labelling. Each section pairs conceptual description with worked case material, and the companion website supplies reproducible rating scales that carry the axes into session notes and review. First published in 2006, the second edition arrived in 2017 with more than ninety percent of the text rewritten by an international group of contributors.
About the authors
Vittorio Lingiardi
Vittorio Lingiardi is an Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome and formerly directed its Clinical Psychology Specialization Program. His research addresses psychodiagnosis, the assessment and treatment of personality disorders, the therapeutic relationship, and gender identity and sexual orientation. With Nancy McWilliams he co-edited the second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2), published by Guilford Press in 2017, a diagnostic framework organised around psychodynamic thinking.
Nancy McWilliams
Nancy McWilliams is an American psychoanalytic psychologist. She is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, where she teaches, and she maintains a private practice in New Jersey. Working within the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic tradition, she is known for accessible, integrative writing on psychoanalytic diagnosis, personality structure and character, and clinical technique. Her books, published by Guilford Press, include Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalytic Supervision.
Details
- 2017
- Guilford Press
- Guilford Press, Second edition
- 1078
- 9781462530540