The Structure of Fantasied Movement in Suicidal Children and Adolescents

Santostefano, Sebastiano; Rieder, Carolyn; Berk, Steven

doi:10.1111/j.1943-278x.1984.tb00333.x

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“…Subjects were derived from an earlier, larger study by Santostefano, Rieder, and Berk (1984). Their control sample of 40 (21 girls and 19 boys) comprised the subject pool for the present study.…”

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Children's Rorschach object representations: Findings for a nonclinical sample.

Tuber¹

1989

Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical

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Data are presented on the Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale for 40 preadolescent, normal Ss (21 girls, 19 boys). Ss gave modal responses indicative of benign interaction; counterbalanced maladaptive scores with adaptive representations in 90% of the cases; and avoided toxic, malevolent responses. This pattern lends further criterion validity to a measure increasingly used with psychiatric populations. Age and IQ were not significantly correlated with MOA scores. Pronounced gender differences were found, with girls producing significantly more adaptive and less malevolent MOA scores. A more detailed assessment of gender differences in object representational paradigms appears warranted.

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“…The families of these children had a median income of $25,000. Roughly two thirds of the working parents held managerial-technical jobs or professional positions, 25% were skilled laborers, 10% were semi-skilled, and 5% were unskilled (Santostefano et al, 1984, p. 6). Eighty-five percent of the families were intact.…”

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Children's Rorschach object representations: Findings for a nonclinical sample.

Tuber¹

1989

Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical

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“…Studies have contributed to the validity and reliability of this scale. For example, one study (Santostefano, Rieder, & Berk, 1984) compared Rorschach responses of suicidal and nonsuicidal children and adolescents hospitalized in a psychiatric facility and also compared the responses of these hospitalized groups with those of public school children and adolescents. Another study (Tuber, Frank, & Santostefano, 1989) compared Rorschach responses children produced when evaluated at home with their responses when evaluated in a hospital setting before undergoing surgery.…”

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A psychodynamic, action-oriented method to assess the contributions of a person’s body image to personality functioning.

Santostefano

2015

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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In contrast to the original conceptualization of body image as an expression of meanings-emotions stimulated by body activity, many investigators conceptualize body image as satisfaction with one's physical appearance assessed with questionnaires. However, authors following psychodynamic psychology advocate that meanings-emotions expressed with body activity and when fantasizing or verbalizing are interrelated unless developmental interferences resulted in the repression of embodied meanings. In response, a method was developed that asks a participant to perform various actionsgestures and share thoughts -emotions that came to mind. The heuristic value of this method is illustrated by studies that explored the relations among meanings-emotions that participants expressed in response to body activity, Rorschach inkblots and when discussing upsetting events. The results support the proposed body image test and illustrate its potential for psychodynamic approaches to personality assessment and psychotherapy.

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“…One study (Santostefano, Rieder, & Berk, 1984), using an earlier version of these scales, compared hospitalized suicidal and nonsuicidal youth and public school children. While addressing youth who aggressed toward the self rather than others, one finding holds particular relevance for our topic.…”

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Body image, relational psychoanalysis, and the construction of meaning: Implications for treating aggressive children

Santostefano

Calicchia

1992

Dev Psychopathol

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For more than a decade it has been reported that a significant proportion of youth referred for treatment come with aggressive problems that are difficult to treat and resistant to change. Concepts and research findings from the domains of body image, cognitive unconscious, and the new relational perspective in psychoanalysis are integrated to address this issue and construct a treatment model. It is proposed that body image schemas, representing early, interpersonal experiences and prescribing persistent aggressive behaviors, are cast in nonverbal, nonsymbolic forms. On the other hand, meanings of environmental rules are cast in symbolic/verbal forms. Therefore, little or no communication and conflict exist between these meanings. For the same reason, because verbal interpretation and discussions of beliefs and attitudes, emphasized by both cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapies, are cast in symbolic-conceptual forms, they might not effectively influence embodied meanings that prescribe aggression. Accordingly, the goal of the proposed approach is to facilitate the translation of embodied meanings that underly aggression into symbolic form in order to promote communication between these meanings and those of expectations and interpretations. This translation is accomplished as the youth and therapist (paralleling infant-caretaker transactions) interact and negotiate an evolving series of ritualized activities within which the youth projects various unrepaired, developmental interferences (interpersonal dilemmas), and their associated embodied meanings, onto the therapist who enacts the roles of the projected dilemmas, using action symbols as solutions whenever possible. As the youth identifies with and internalizes the therapist's efforts and solutions, the embodied meanings become translated into symbols that communicate with those of rules at higher cognitive levels, resulting in mental conflict available to awareness and discussions. To illustrate the heuristic value of the model, a treatment case is described and new research directions discussed.

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The Structure of Fantasied Movement in Suicidal Children and Adolescents

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Children's Rorschach object representations: Findings for a nonclinical sample.

Children's Rorschach object representations: Findings for a nonclinical sample.

A psychodynamic, action-oriented method to assess the contributions of a person’s body image to personality functioning.

Body image, relational psychoanalysis, and the construction of meaning: Implications for treating aggressive children

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