Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy

A Unified Approach
Jeffrey J. Magnavita
In Personality-Guided Relational Therapy, author Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates how personality
theory guides his approach to psychotherapy. His empirically founded new model provides a flexible and
evolving theory and approach to therapy that draws from more than a century of developments in the field
of psychology. This impressive book reconciles and integrates several theoretical viewpoints, enabling
clinicians to conceptualize clinical syndromes by understanding the complex interplay of elements from
the biopsychosocial model. Case illustrations demonstrate the theory, methods, and techniques of
treatment. The book nicely culminates in an integrative chapter devoted to enhancing treatment synergy
and a final chapter focused on empirical verification and future directions. 2005. 359 pages. Hardcover.

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ISBN 978-1-59147-213-1 | Item # 4317065

Personality-Guided Therapy Over Time

with Jeffrey J. Magnavita
In Personality-Guided Therapy Over Time, Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his unified model of
conceptualizing personality dysfunction and focusing treatment using four well-established constructs as
pattern recognition tools. His approach tailors psychotherapy to each client, systematically interweaving
therapeutic modalities, strategies, and interventions using a biopsychosocial perspective. In this series of
six sessions, Dr. Magnavita works with a woman in her 40s to uncover her feelings about her family
distancing themselves from her after she came out as a lesbian. During the initial interview it also
emerges that she uses alcohol in a destructive fashion to deal with her emotions. Treatment centers on
helping the client recognize her self-defeating patterns emanating from issues related to growing up in a
dysfunctional family and resolving the emotional attachments that keep her stuck. Over the course of six
sessions she becomes more aware of her feelings and discovers more adaptive ways to deal with them in
order to extricate herself from these repetitive patterns. Over 300 minutes.
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ISBN 978-1-4338-0685-8 | Item # 4310873

Personality Disorders
with Jeffrey J. Magnavita
“Magnavita's work is impressive in its fluidity and grace. It demonstrates the potential for real
transformation in the therapeutic moment in the hands of a clinician who is prepared by both theory and
technique.”
—PsycCRITIQUES®
In Personality Disorders, Dr. Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his approach to working with clients
presenting with the spectrum of personality disorders and with clinical syndromes such as obsessive–
compulsive or anxiety disorders. Dr. Magnavita uses personality-guided relational psychotherapy, a form
of therapy that describes personality as encompassing four domains: biological, interpersonal, relational,
and sociocultural. In this session, Dr. Magnavita works with a recently married woman in her 20s who was
neglected and abused as a child. The client is experiencing symptoms of anxiety and obsessive–
compulsive disorder. Dr. Magnavita assesses her defenses and personality structure and begins to help her
to see how she has coped with her negative childhood experiences and how these coping strategies affect
her present life. Over 100 minutes.
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ISBN 978-1-59147-449-4 | Item # 4310763
About Jeffrey J. Magnavita
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in active clinical practice. A diplomate of the
American Board of Professional Psychology and fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), he is the recipient of the 2006 Award for
Distinguished Professional Contribution to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector from APA for his work in unifying psychotherapy and
personality systematics.

He authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach; Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders; Personality-Guided
Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach; Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality; was the volume editor of
the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic/Object Relations: Volume I; Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice; and
serves as the editor of the forthcoming Evidence-Based Treatment of Personality Disorders: Principles, Methods, and Processes.
In addition to his many texts, Dr. Magnavita has published extensively in the field and is on the editorial boards of the Professional Psychology, Research,
and Practice, Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training.
He was elected the president of Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA for the year 2010 and has previously made a highly acclaimed DVD demonstrating his
approach in a single session.

Most recently he was the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project and has created a task force to map the current methods and techniques of
psychotherapy. He has served as affiliate professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hartford and is a clinical affiliate at Hartford Hospital.

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