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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 specific therapeutic intervention. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Overview
Part 1 Description
Chapter Making the Diagnosis
Chapter 2 Differential Diagnosis
Chapter 3 Anger Triggers: Reasons Why Passive-Aggressives Get So Angry
Chapter 4 More Reasons Why Passive-Aggressives Get So Angry (More Anger Triggers)
Chapter 5 Reasons Passive-Aggressives Can Only Express Their Anger Indirectly
Chapter 6 Anger Styles
Chapter 7 Other (Nonsyndromal) Anger Styles: Tactical, Cognitive-Behavioral, Interpersonal, and Biological Features
Chapter 8 Pseudopassive-Aggressives
Part 2 Victims of Passive-Aggressives
Chapter 9 Pseudovictims
Chapter 10 More Interactions Between Passive-Aggressives and Their Victims
Chapter 11 Sadomasochism
Part 3 Treatment
Chapter 12 Introduction to Treatment/Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy
Chapter 13 Cognitive Therapy
Chapter 14 Interpersonal Therapy
Chapter 15 Transference and Countertransference Issues
Chapter 16 Victims of Passive-Aggression
Chapter 17 Helping Passive-Aggressives Become Less So
Chapter 18 Anger Management
Notes
Index

About the Author

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.