This is a perspective that few dare to think or psy offer. It was a mixture of several inspirations and schools; a strong dominance of ideas from TCC but a psychoanalytic background back without being dogmatic or in one or other of the two areas. Basically, this book presents a set of ideas that can help guide therapies available to our patients. The great theory is that our personality and our actions follow regimens in which we are more or less imprisoned because of our education, our genetic determinism of our childhood etc. It is the repetition of certain behaviors associated with these schemes is pathological and prevents us from being good. The psychoanalytic part is the development of these schematics during our childhood, of our life. We find in this book the details of all the great patterns that can be found in individuals. A questionnaire will help you discover these patterns and for psy, discover with your patients. The authors offer an explanation of this theory and direct application in therapy which is also the starting point. So ultimately is a very practical book that falls within the range of practices for therapists interesting works like those of Luborsky, Ellis and Beck etc. I loved this relatively original perspective in that it does not preclude behavioral and cognitive theories on the one hand and on the other psychoanalysis. However, I sometimes blocked on the presentation of the book making me think of an attempt to convince the reader ... but the bottom is to exploit to understand our behavior even if he does not use this theory to the extent that this would tend to make our lives simple.
