Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach

ISBN-13: 9780881632347 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 510 str.

Paul M. Lerner

Opis

This text offers a detailed, multidimensional vision of the Rorschach as the ideal medium for operationalizing, testing, and in some instances transforming contemporary clinical theory.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: Clinical Applications. An Experiential Psychoanalytic Approach. The Nature of the Rorschach Task. The Psychological Test Report. Psychoanalytic Diagnostic Scheme. The Rorschach Assessment Frame. Administration and Scoring. The Patient-Examiner Relationship. Major Scores: The Dimensions of the Rorschach. The Fifth Scoring Category. Specific Scores and Their Meaning. The Analysis of Content. The Analysis of Sequence. Two Approaches to Interpretation. The Inference Process. Rorschach Assessment and Treatment Planning. Part II: Research Applications. The Rorschach Assessment of Object Representations. Rorschach Assessment of Defense I: Traditional Measures. Rorschach Assessment of Defense II: Recent Measures. Dissociation: Theoretical and Assessment Considerations. Developmental Object Relations. Rapaport's Deviant Verbalization Scores and Research. The Borderline Concept and the Rorschach Test. Variants of the Borderline Concept and the Rorschach Test. Rorschach Measures of Narcissism and the Narcissistic Patient. The Rorschach and Assessing Treatment Outcome. Toward an Integrated Rorschach Approach.

O autorze

Paul M. Lerner, Ed.D., psychoanalyst and psychologist, is an award-winning Rorschach researcher and past President of the Society for Personality Assessment.  The author of Psychoanalytic Theory and the Rorschach (Analytic Press, 1991), he is currently in private practice in Camden, ME.