Lorna Smith Benjamin, Ph.D. on SASB and the Structure and Treatment of Personality Disorders

Summary: Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. "Lorna Smith Benjamin, Ph.D. on SASB and the Structure and Treatment of Personality Disorders". In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Lorna Smith Benjamin on SASB and the Structure and Treatment of Personality Disorders. Dr. Benjamin, a psychologist, is the inventor of SASB or Structural Analysis of Social Behavior which is a formal and rigorous coding system for capturing the specific character and nature of a person's interpersonal interactions. Though SASB was originally developed as a way of understanding the social behaviors of monkeys in a laboratory setting, Dr. Benjamin realized many years ago that it would provide an excellent basis for studying personality disorders and helping to identify ways that these complicated and by their nature very social problems could be effectively treated with psychotherapy. For approximately the past 30 years she has rather tirelessly worked to do that, most recently through her development of Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT).