ABSTRACT
In his book Neurotic styles, David Shapiro employs the term “style” in the sense of “a form or mode of functioning-the way or a manner of a given area of behavior-that is identiable in an individual through a range of
his specic acts” (Shapiro, 1965, p. 1). I believe that this notion, originally from literary and arts studies, is extremely pertinent to the topic. I will therefore develop and apply it in this chapter and consider some of the results of my own clinical practice and research in relation to this broad concept of style.
