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Projective Assessment [electronic resource] / by Robert R. Holt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1978Edition: 1st ed. 1978Description: XV, 344 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781468423914
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.89 23
LOC classification:
  • RC466.8-467.97
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Contents:
General Introduction -- 1 • Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research -- The TAT -- 2 • The Thematic Apperception Test: Rationale, Administration, and Interpretation -- 3 • A Normative Guide to the Use of the TAT Cards -- 4 • The Nature of TAT Stories as Cognitive-Affective Products: A Psychoanalytic Approach -- 5 • Formal Aspects of the TAT—A Neglected Resource -- 6 • A Blind Interpretation of Doe’s TAT (with extracts of independent case data) -- 7 • A Blind Interpretation of Jay’s TAT (with extracts of independent case data) -- The Rorschach -- 8 • Gauging Primary and Secondary Processes in Rorschach Responses -- 9 • Cognitive Controls and Primary Processes -- 10 • Creativity and Primary Process: A Study of Adaptive Regression -- 11 • Measuring Libidinal and Aggressive Motives and Their Controls by Means of the Rorschach Test -- Other Methods -- 12 • An Approach to the Validation of the Szondi Test through a Systematic Study of Unreliability -- 13 • The Accuracy of Self-Evaluations: Its Measurement and Some of Its Personological Correlates -- 14 • An Inductive Method of Analyzing Defense of Self-Esteem -- References -- Name Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: I do not think of myself as primarily interested in method, but in the substance of psychology. Nevertheless, our discipline has such difficulties in coming to grips with its substance that I have found myself getting involved in fww to do it persistently and since the beginning of my career. That career has been divided between diagnosis and research, the balance between them swinging gradually from the former to the latter. To the astonishment of many of my students and colleagues, I have never become a psychotherapist nor a psychoanalyst, though I have looked closely over the shoulders of many friends at their work, have attended continuous case seminars, and have participated in research on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis enough to feel that I have a pretty good grasp of what that kind of endeavor is like. So I have been writing about method, diagnostic and investigative, for over 25 years, and was happy to accept the suggestion of Seymour Weingar­ ten, of Plenum Press, that I publish a collection of these papers. What has ended up as two volumes was originally conceived as one, for I feel that there is more similarity of method in assessment, prediction, and research than appears on the surface. The General Introduction and Chapter 1 of Volume 1 state the point of view of the entire work.
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General Introduction -- 1 • Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research -- The TAT -- 2 • The Thematic Apperception Test: Rationale, Administration, and Interpretation -- 3 • A Normative Guide to the Use of the TAT Cards -- 4 • The Nature of TAT Stories as Cognitive-Affective Products: A Psychoanalytic Approach -- 5 • Formal Aspects of the TAT—A Neglected Resource -- 6 • A Blind Interpretation of Doe’s TAT (with extracts of independent case data) -- 7 • A Blind Interpretation of Jay’s TAT (with extracts of independent case data) -- The Rorschach -- 8 • Gauging Primary and Secondary Processes in Rorschach Responses -- 9 • Cognitive Controls and Primary Processes -- 10 • Creativity and Primary Process: A Study of Adaptive Regression -- 11 • Measuring Libidinal and Aggressive Motives and Their Controls by Means of the Rorschach Test -- Other Methods -- 12 • An Approach to the Validation of the Szondi Test through a Systematic Study of Unreliability -- 13 • The Accuracy of Self-Evaluations: Its Measurement and Some of Its Personological Correlates -- 14 • An Inductive Method of Analyzing Defense of Self-Esteem -- References -- Name Index.

I do not think of myself as primarily interested in method, but in the substance of psychology. Nevertheless, our discipline has such difficulties in coming to grips with its substance that I have found myself getting involved in fww to do it persistently and since the beginning of my career. That career has been divided between diagnosis and research, the balance between them swinging gradually from the former to the latter. To the astonishment of many of my students and colleagues, I have never become a psychotherapist nor a psychoanalyst, though I have looked closely over the shoulders of many friends at their work, have attended continuous case seminars, and have participated in research on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis enough to feel that I have a pretty good grasp of what that kind of endeavor is like. So I have been writing about method, diagnostic and investigative, for over 25 years, and was happy to accept the suggestion of Seymour Weingar­ ten, of Plenum Press, that I publish a collection of these papers. What has ended up as two volumes was originally conceived as one, for I feel that there is more similarity of method in assessment, prediction, and research than appears on the surface. The General Introduction and Chapter 1 of Volume 1 state the point of view of the entire work.

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