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Martin Kantor
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) is now recognized as a distinct personality disorder. Those who suffer from PAPD are sorely in need not only of diagnostic recognition, but also of…
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Explains the subtle but pervasive aspects of sadomasochism that affect everyday relationships across our lives, detailing when the power and control dynamics become neurotic and describing actions that can be…
This unprecedented work is an invaluable resource for therapists treating patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), for individuals suffering from OCPD, and for friends, family, and coworkers of those with…
Problems and Solutions is a concise guide for beginning psychotherapists who have mastered basic theory and technique and are now preparing to run psychotherapy sessions.
This book describes the depressive in his or her natural habitat, studies the everyday problems that cause one’s depression, and develops treatment approaches directed to the depressive’s real-world plight.
This innovative book explains writer’s block (and other creative blocks) as a symptom of a larger disorder. Kantor identifies 10 kinds of writer’s block, classified according to the underlying disorder…
This work provides a comprehensive view of factors contributing to workplace traumas, and presents an incremental approach to developing effective clinical therapies. It suggests case-specific methods for preventing and curing…
Shows therapists how psychological problems can be buried in a gay context, guiding them to recognition and dynamic evaluation that forms the basis of a treatment plan that is simultaneously…
Provides insights into a faulty culture that urges men to always have a stiff upper lip and shun medical attention. This book shows the ways in which depression is very…
Exposes the broken Veterans Administration (VA) system that goes from the Washington boardroom to local treatment rooms to detail how all concerned - from the VA doctors to the vets…
Ten years after he first brought us the book Homophobia, which laid bare the harsh realities and harmful effects of this sexual bigotry, psychiatrist Martin Kantor delves again into prejudice…
This book is an invaluable resource manual and survival guide for gay men who often turn to peers, parents, educators, or the media for direction, only to encounter misleading myths…
In this insightful book, the author vividly takes the reader inside the minds of people who are paranoid: experiencing delusions of persecution ranging from thinking others are out to get…
Find and keep Mr. Right.
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Written by a longtime psychiatrist who is himself gay, this unique guide will help parents deal with discovering they have a gay son, allowing them to more comfortably come out…
Despite an abysmal success rate, practitioners still use reparative therapy in an attempt to turn gays and lesbians straight. This text exposes the pitfalls that should be considered before gays…
Emphasizing diagnosis, causality, and holistic treatment, this is the only book offering a full discussion of Avoidant Personality Disorder for therapists and sufferers.
Kantor offers a specific method for helping avoidants overcome their fear of closeness and commitments and offers a guide for developing lasting, intimate, anxiety-free relationships.
Is there a mild psychopath near you? Fifteen-time author Kantor, a psychiatrist whose last work, Understanding Paranoia, also zeroed in on everyday problems, explains how to recognize, understand and cope…
Offers an in-depth, multidisciplinary compendium of essays about one of the most influential theatre artists of the twentieth century. Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory of post-dramatic theatre and developments in critical theory…
