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Personality Adaptations
by Vann Joines and Ian Stewart

Contents

Preface

Copyright acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

1. Introducing the Six Adaptations

"Thumbnail sketches" of the six adaptations
Identifying the six adaptations
The model and its basis in reality

Part II: The Model of Personality Adaptations

2. A Developmental Perspective

Introversion-extraversion, energy level and the adaptations
"Surviving" vs. "performing" adaptations

3. The Structure of Personality

The theoretical framework: personality structure and ego states
Structural analysis of the six personality adaptations

4. Issues in Change for the Different Adaptations

The theoretical framework: life script
Typical life-script patterns for the six adaptations

5. Putting It All Together: The Six Adaptations in Detail

Enthusiastic-Overreactor (Histrionic)
Responsible-Workaholic (Obsessive-Compulsive)
Brilliant-Skeptic (Paranoid)
Creative-Daydreamer (Schizoid)
Playful-Resister (Passive-Aggressive)
Charming-Manipulator (Antisocial)

6. Combinations of Adaptations

7. Relation of the Adaptations to the DSM-IV-TR Classifications
 

Part III: Diagnosing the Six Adaptations

8. Driver Behaviours: a Key to Diagnosis

Driver messages and driver behaviours
How drivers correspond to the six adaptations

9. Other Clues to Diagnosing the Adaptations
 

Part IV: Achieving and Maintaining Rapport

10. How to Avoid Inviting Drivers

11. The Five Modes of Communication

Matching communication mode to personality adaptation

12. Using the Ware Sequence for Rapport

Working with the "doors" and the five modes

13. How the Personality Adaptations Interact
 

Part V: Inviting Personal Change

14. Doing Therapy with the Different Personality
Adaptations

The therapeutic framework
Redecision therapy and the personality adaptations
Working with combined adaptations
Tracking movements around the Process Model

15. Confronting the Process Script

Confrontations for each of the process script types

16. Using the Process Model in Therapy: an Overview
 

Part VI: Advanced Applications of the Model

17. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Using the Six
Personality Adaptations

Correlating adaptations with the quadrants

18. Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Borderline personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Treatment

Part VII: Personal Change in Practice:
Transcripts of Therapy

19. The Histrionic Client: Reclaiming Personal Power

20. The Obsessive-Compulsive Client: Learning to "Be"

21. The Paranoid Client: Feeling Safe in the World

22. The Schizoid Client: Owning Feelings and Needs

23. The Passive-Aggressive Client: Letting Go of Struggle

24. The Antisocial Client: Becoming Real

25. The Client with Combined Adaptations

Afterword

Appendices

A. Relating the Personality Adaptations to Previous
Classification Systems

Historical origins
Modern formulations
Psychoanalytic contributions
Learned coping patterns
Pathological versus non-pathological schemas

B. Measuring the Adaptations

Personality trait measurement
Designing an instrument to measure the personality adaptations
Conclusions

C. Joines Personality Adaptation Questionnaire

References

Glossary

Index

 

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