Psychological Evaluation in Psychotherapy: Ten Case Histories

ISBN-13: 9780202363219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 378 str.

Leonard Blank

Opis

Written by a scholar who is a therapist and a psychodiagnostician, this book documents the direct relationship between patient response patterns to a battery of psychological tests, and their subsequent behavior in psychotherapy. Unlike other books in the field, which concentrate on psychodiagnostics or psychological report writing, Blank takes the reader, session-by-session, through the therapeutic notes of ten patients who were in therapy. At each step of the way, patient behavior in therapy is shown alongside test response patterns.This book, first published in 1965, continues to provide a major contribution, both as a practical manual and as a reference book for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, trainees and students. Anyone who is interested in using psychological evaluations to better understand the intricacies of the therapeutic process will fi nd the book an invaluable aid. So also will those who want to sharpen their diagnostic skills as part of theory construction.The author also provides a description and rationale of commonly employed psycho-diagnostic techniques, diagnostic overviews for each of the ten patients emphasizing the dynamics of differing diagnostic patterns and their prognostic implications, complete test data and process therapy notes for each of the ten patients, and an analysis of the complex interplay of personality resources of the patient, the personality of the therapist and the fortuitous circumstances that enter into every therapeutic situation.

Spis treści

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Procedures and Premises
Chapter
1. MISS AMORALITY-CHARACTER DISORDER WITH MASOCHISTIC FEATURES
2. A CASE OF ORALITY-ANXIETY REACTION
3. POLLYANNA-SCHIZOID WITH MARKED HYPOCHONDRIACAL FEATURES
4. A CASE OF SHAKES-HYSTERICAL PERSONALITY
5. DYSPHORIA-CHARACTER DISORDER (ADOLESCENT REACTION) WITH HYSTERICAL FEATURES
6. THE RENEGADE-A CASE OF REBELLION-HYSTERICAL NEUROSIS WITH ACTING OUT FEATURES
7. SADOMASOCHISM-CHARACTER DISORDER WITH UNDERLYING PSYCHOTIC FEATURES
8. A CASE OF DENIAL-HYSTERICAL CHARACTER DISORDER WITH COMPULSIVE FEATURES
9. HYPOCHONDRIA-CHARACTER DISORDER WITH MARKED HYPOCHONDRIACAL FEATURES
10. MISS FANTASY-EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE PERSONALITY WITH PSYCHOTIC POTENTIAL
11. CONCLUSION
Appendix: Test Data and Diagnostic Interviews
1. MISS AMORALITY
2. A CASE OF ORALITY
3. POLLYANNA
4. A CASE OF SHAKES
5. DYSPHOIUA
6. THE RENEGADE
7. MISS SADOMASOCHISM
8. A CASE OF DENIAL
9. HYPOCHONDRIA
10. MISS FANTASY
Bibliography

O autorze

Leonard Blank