Download or read book Autonomy And Rigid Character written by David Shapiro and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1984-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.