PDMS Books

I found this manual a useful resource for the evaluation and treatment of our consultants.
It's also an invaluable aid for teaching psychotherapy.
As it presents personality traits as a continuum, with emphasis in healthy functional patterns and healthy personality, the comprehension of psychopatology results a dynamic process, not a cold list of symtoms.

I have found the manual very detailed and informative. A very useful resource to add to my reference library.

This is a bold and accomplished attempt by the psychoanalytic collaborative to produce a diagnostic manual that respects the phenomenological astuteness of the DSM-IV-TR, whilst asssertively departing from it and offering a personality centred nosology for categorising psychological difficulties.

The PDM corrects what has long been the bain of psychologists and psychotherapists, namely, the DSM's prioritising of discreet Axis I disorders over an understanding of how these form a part of a person's overall orientation to self, others and the world. The PDM recognises the personality, both healthy and disordered, (the P Axis) as the basis for understanding psychological problems. It further offers the M Axis, that begins to provide measurable psychodynamic criteria for mental functioning that cuts across personality style. This axis introduces a way of thinking about the developmental (maturational) aspects of our psychology as pivotal to an understanding of psychological disorders. Finally, the PDM in its 3rd S Axis, outlines the Subjective Experience that characterises the typical DSM Axis I-like difficulties. Here the PDM explores affective, cognitive, somatic, and relationship patterns associated with psychological difficulties in a manner evocative of a CBT formulation. In fact, I hope that in future editions, more of the fine cross-sectional formulations that CBT is famous for will find its way into this manual.

Being versed in psychodynamic theory is not a pre-requisite for the use of this manual, although it could help. The PDM has attempted to move beyond and integrate and systematise the divergent streams of knowledge that make up psychodynamic theory today. In addition it has employed understanding from the cognitive and neuropsychological traditions to provide a more descriptive view of the person-in-suffering than the compartmentalised DSM could. That said, the PDM does not attempt to replace the DSM, but functions as a complimentary adjunct, by providing the DSM equivalents of its own categories.

One of the strengths of this manual is that it is full of rich case illustrations. Half the book is also dedicated to the research base for the nosology that opens up and attempts to engage with the fissures in diagnostic thinking that are usually whitewashed in everyday practice.

The true test of the PDM will reside in its application, to find its way into psychological reports and formulations, and for its editorial team to continue its integrative psychological spirit that may stretch beyond specifically psychoanalytically/dynamically derived knowledge. I urge you to take this one on for size. Diagnostic systems are here to stay, we ignore them at our peril, and the PDM is a courageous first attempt to tame the diagnositc beast with the tempering of meaning and astute psychological science.

This is a long over due alternative to the DSMlV-R. The joint effort of six of the countries dynamically oriented professional organizations have led to a fully referenced and well thought out manual using a psychodynamic/psychoanalytical oreintation to understanding the patient.
Using a three axis model including Personality Patterns and Disorders,Mental Functioning axis and Subjective Experience to help the clinician organize the elements of the dynamic presentation of the patient Each axis has usefull subsets and using them the clinician can deveolpe a dynamic picture of the whole patient. This is a wonderful tool and teaching device. Kit Erskine M.S.Ed., M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.

If you're anything like me (by like "me" I mean you're not necessarily fond of the DSMs) chances are you'd like this alternate classification. All of the heavyweight psychoanalysis organizations joined together to produce a diagnostic manual that takes into account the subjective experience of the patient, beyond the description of a general diagnosis. The reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because I'd like it to have important information on transference and countertransference. Being created by the psychoanalytic organizations you'd expect it to include some notes on the Transference/Countertransferece experience in general for each pathology. But the truth is that this manual is actually useful even for therapists outside the psychoanalytic field, so the transferences/countertransference would have probably narrowed the group of psychotherapists it can reach being written the way it is.

This book is one of the most comprehensive and lavishly illustrated resources about PDM from a manufacturing perspective in print.

It provides a solid introduction to PDM as a discipline, and the underlying concepts, including justification for implementing PDM and its associated ROI.

I like the way PDM is treated as an overreaching process, and how it connects to BOMs, routing and scheduling, and the manufacturing process itself. The book delves into metrics, specialized BOMs, managing change, and recommended vendors to provide the technical infrastructure to support PDM. Also included is a project plan and roadmap for implementing PDM, which enhances the value of this book.

The writing is crystal clear, and is augmented by full color graphics that portray concepts, processes and other relevant information, making this book both an easy read and a reference during and after PDM has been implemented. Moreover, the supporting web site, CIBRES (ASIN B0001MMRTY) contains additional information about this book and supporting materials.

This book is a big disappointment; I am actively working in the PDM/PLM market for over 15 years and I have given many training and educational workshops; I was leading the ESPRIT RapidPDM project. Even though I reviewed the book from an educational perspective, to my opinion the book is nothing more as a summary of topics; the authors have not succeeded in getting their 'thing' and experience transferred to the pages. There are better books and even better articles around (e.g. Gartner, Cimdata, Forrester, John Stark to name a few).
So why 2 stars you might ask: well that's because the authors have included metrics and that's an important fact!

This is excellent, seems to me that this is the first time when some one has put all the basics of PLM in one cover.

As I see it, the real PLM problem or challenge is really not the PLM software implementation project. The real issue is to know what to implement! The concept of PLM is still much fuzzier than f. ex. the area of ERPs.
In my company we discussed for ages about certain details of PLM, its contents and the selecting of the SW vendor. However the real big thing was that there were no clear goals for the whole PLM development project. I think we missed our opportunity here because all the discussions and the definitions of PLM were held in very different levels and everybody had very different understanding of PLM
within our organization.

We all should have read something like this before we launched our PLM initiative in our company. This book really gives you good and clear view into PLM. I recommend!

This book was fine reading. I like this kind of business books; most important points are easy to pick, not too scientific, clear and lots of new ideas - it was a perfect fit for my current needs. (I'm a director responsible for business development in my company (manufacturing services SME) My business is to bring in new concepts to help our business and couple the possibilities of modern IT-systems to our processes.
The book was very well written with good summaries at end of each chapter. One specific thing that I really appreciated was the point that the book as whole gives a good end-to-end view to the whole PLM area - from building a product strategy to supporting it in daily business with PLM information systems. And one other thing that I would like to point out is the use of terminology, it is so important; all terms are well explained in this book. After reading this it will be much easier for me to discuss about these matters with engineers etc.