Character dynamics. Self-regulation in psychopathology

In this book, David Shapiro deepens his research, set forth in the books "Neurotic styles" and "autonomy and a rigid person". Creates a general picture of character dynamics as a self -regulating system, covering individual attitudes, forms of action and attitude to the outside world.
The author shows a formal connection between obsessed-informative and paranoid, hysterical and psychopathic and psychopathic and hypomanic states. Explits the relationship between neurotic conditions and schizophrenia. It concludes that it is better to consider a qualitatively changed form of schizophrenic symptoms as a radical spread of neurotic protection, and not as a gap or their complete destruction.
The author critically refers to a simplified model of complex mental processes, which reduces the causes of symptoms to a biological defect or psychological trauma. Thus, this book expands and deepens the initial, sophisticated and consolidating idea of ​​David Shapiro about psychopathology