Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach

Lerner, Paul M.

doi:10.4324/9780203727911

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“…The shift from whole to part figures is consistent with the conception that patients with personality disorders might defensively manage the anxiety by splitting the object representations into good and bad ones, failing to integrate apparently contradicted characteristics in the same object (Lerner 1998). The undeveloped inner objects would be revealed in these protocols by an elevated number of responses with vague Developmental Quality (DQv) and predominance of part and/or human-like objects that are less articulated, less accurately perceived and are more deformed, distorted, and destructive.…”

Section: The Utility Of the Rorschach Inkblot Methods For Psychodynamisupporting

confidence: 59%

Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

Czopp

2012

J Youth Adolescence

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Recent publications in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence present a variety of topics exploring adolescents' mental functioning in the twenty first century. Conceptually, many of the articles address the intriguing, though rarely explicit, question of developmental continuities and change from adolescence to adulthood. Such investigations, which are particularly prominent in articles that discuss personality dispositions such as impulsivity or lack of empathy and their relationship to emotionally disturbed or maladaptive interpersonal behaviors, examine interactional effects of these dispositions within the personality-context matrix. From a methodological perspective, however, the major tools used for assessing personality dispositions are self-report inventories while performance-based methods, previously defined as projective tests, are not used at all despite the wide range of empirical studies that provide support for their psychometric properties. This commentary suggests that applying a theoretically based, multi-method assessment procedure in empirical research would be most fruitful for any study aimed at exploring mental functioning in adolescents. As an example, I would use the Rorschach Inkblot Method, currently being internationally considered as the most frequently applied personality test for assessing adolescents. Implications for research, practice and policy decisionmaking are discussed.

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Section: The Utility Of the Rorschach Inkblot Methods For Psychodynamisupporting

confidence: 59%

Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

Czopp

2012

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Her opening response to 4 See Bram and Peebles (2014) and Lerner (1998) for an explanation of determinant qualifiers such as avoid. Essentially, avoid is noted when the respondent has likely been stirred by chromatic features of the inkblot but is not able to articulate it to be scored as a determinant.…”

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To Resume a Stalled Psychotherapy? Psychological Testing to Understand an Impasse and Reevaluate Treatment Options

Bram

2015

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Clinical wisdom holds that psychological testing is a useful tool for consultation when there is a need to untangle and resolve a psychotherapeutic impasse. However, there has been a lack of empirical research in this area, and only a few cases have been published demonstrating how psychological testing can be used toward this end. In this article, the author offers a case illustration of the application of testing with a patient who sought to resume psychotherapy following a previous impasse and premature termination. Specific referral questions for the evaluation are explicated followed by discussion of the test data that answered each of them. The findings pointed not only to intrapsychic and object relational characteristics of the patient that contributed to the impasse but, importantly, alerted the author-therapist to his contributions as well. Treatment implications of the findings are also highlighted.

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“…However, there has been growing empirical evidence that point out the Rorschach Inkblot Method (Rorschach, 1921) as a valid tool that might be very useful for clarifying psychological experiences in both children and adult traumatized patients (Armstrong & Loewenstein, 1990;Brand, Armstrong, & Loewenstein, 2006;Brand, Armstrong, Loewenstein, & McNary, 2009;Carlson & Armstrong, 1994;Clinton, & Jenkins-Monroe, 1994;Goldfinger, Amdur, & Liberzon, 1998;Hartman et al, 1990;Holaday, 2000;Leavitt & Labott, 1998;Lerner, 1998;Sloan, Arseault, Hilsenroth, Harvill, & Handler, 1995;Steinberg, 1996;Swanson, Blount, & Bruno,1990;Viglione, 1990;Zeligman, Smith, & Tibon, 2011).…”

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Assessing Effects of National Trauma on Adaptive Functioning of Mentally Healthy Adults: An Exploratory Rorschach Study

Tibon

Rothschild²,

Appel³

et al. 2011

PSYCH

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The study evaluates deviations in Rorschach indices, usually related to effects of exposure to trauma, in three samples of Israeli adult non-patients. Data collected from 41 Israeli undergraduates in 1996-1997, during a period of increased rate of terror attacks in central cities of the country (Tibon, 2007) respectively. Nonetheless, the Lebanon War Exposure sample showed a tendency towards being alert and suspicious in interpersonal relationships. The data are interpreted as demonstrating the utility of the Rorschach as an assessment tool that is more responsive than previously thought to non-personality contextual factors such as national trauma.

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach

Cited by 29 publications

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Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

To Resume a Stalled Psychotherapy? Psychological Testing to Understand an Impasse and Reevaluate Treatment Options

Assessing Effects of National Trauma on Adaptive Functioning of Mentally Healthy Adults: An Exploratory Rorschach Study

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