Passive-Aggression: Understanding the Sufferer, Helping the Victim, 2nd Edition

As Dr. Kantor demonstrates, Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder is a serious clinical syndrome that causes significant distress to individuals with such problems as well as to people involved with them." (Scott Wetzler, Author of the best-selling book Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man: Coping with Hidden Aggression from the Bedroom to the Boardroom) . Kantor's well-researched book helps to rescue the concept of ‘passive-aggression' from the rubbish bin to which DSM-5 has relegated it. "The second edition of Dr

This new book from Martin Kantor speaks to therapists; guides those who interact with passive-aggressive individuals to advance their own effective coping methods based on science, understanding, and compassion; and directly addresses passive-aggressive individuals themselves.• Presents powerful, eye-opening, and practical information for therapists, passive-aggressive individuals themselves, friends and family of passive-aggressive individuals, and on-the-job colleagues of those who treat others in a passive-aggressive manner• Documents how the answers to three basic questions about passive-aggression are the keys to proper diagnosis, understanding causality, and providing improved therapeutic responses• Covers a variety of treatment options and strategiesincluding cognitive, interpersonal, and psychoanalytic approaches as well as common transference and countertransference issuesthat will aid victims of passive-aggressiveness and help passive-aggressive individuals themselves to do better• Includes two chapters that specifically provide self-help therapy for sufferers and their victims. Those who suffer from PAPD are sorely in need not only of diagnostic recognition, but also of specific therapeutic intervention. Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) is now recognized as a distinct personality disorder

Martin Kantor, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who has been in full private practice in Boston and New York City and active in residency training programs at hospitals including Massachusetts General in Boston, MA, and Beth Israel in New York, NY.