Understanding Personality through Projective Testing (eBook)

Steven Tuber (Autor)

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2012
254 Seiten
Jason Aronson, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0924-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing provides a concise, nuanced depiction of six core aspects of personality within a psychodynamic/developmental framework. It then portrays how each of these domains can be assessed with four projective methods: the Rorschach, TAT, Sentence Completion and Animal Preference Tests. The strengths and heuristic value of each of the four methods are described individually and then integrated via case examples to provide a rich, comprehensive methodology for understanding personality functioning.

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The past forty years have revealed a myriad of theoretical advances to Freud's original conceptions of the personality. It has also witnessed the continued use of projective methods as a vital means of understanding the what and the how of mental health and psychopathology. Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing provides the reader with a comprehensive framework for linking these revitalized key domains of personality functioning to the quality of responses to projective testing in both children and adults. Six core aspects of personality: two facets of object relations (moving towards and away from self and others); the quality of defense mechanisms; the nature of affect maturity; the integrity of autonomous ego functioning and the capacity for playfulness are defined, articulated, and linked to one another in a reciprocal manner. Four commonly used projective testing methods: the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM); the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Sentence Completion Test (SCT), and the Animal Preference Test (APT) are then described in detail. Each of these projective methods is in turn presented as dynamically-based tools to indicate the relative performance of the patient across the six core personality domains. Clinical case examples provide both the beginning and more seasoned clinician with a comprehensive psychodynamic paradigm with which to view each of the testing methods, as well as enhanced methods with which to use each of the tests more subtly and hence with greater clinical acumen. A comprehensive battery of projective testing is then assessed through the protocol of a single adult patient, allowing the reader to integrate the value of each of the individual projective methods into a comprehensive assessment of the whole person. Readers will find the book a vital complement to both standard reference works on projective methods as well as books that describe personality along developmental and psychodynamic lines.

Autor

Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPP, is professor of psychology and director of clinical training in the doctoral program in clinical psychology of the City University of New York at City College. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Attachment, Play & Authenticity: A Winnicott Primer, and Starting Treatment with Children and Adolescents: A Process-Oriented Guide for Therapists (with Jane Caflisch) as well as over one hundred papers on the interplay between assessment and treatment in children, adolescents, and adults.Understanding Personality through Projective Testing was also selected as a finalist for the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship (2012).

Inhalt

Author’s NoteAcknowledgmentsDedicationChapter 1: A StoryChapter 2: A Conceptual Framework for Personality Assessment: The Domains of Negative and Positive Object RelationsChapter 3: Affects, Defenses, Ego Functions and the Capacity to PlayChapter 4: The Rorschach: Translating The RIM to our Personality DomainsChapter 5: Linking RIM Movement, Shading And Color Responses to our Personality DomainsChapter 6: A RIM Case ExampleChapter 7: The TATChapter 8: The Clinical Application Of the TATChapter 9: The Sentence Completion and Animal Preference TasksChapter 10: The Case of Nicholas: His RIMChapter 11: The Case of Nicholas: His SCT and APTChapter 12: The Case of Nicholas: His TAT, and a Case Summary Chapter 13: Epilogue: Some Concluding RemarksReferencesFiguresIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Schlagworte: psychotherapy
• ISBN-10: 0-7657-0924-4 / 0765709244
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7657-0924-0 / 9780765709240