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Empirical Perspectives on Object Relations Theory
"As was true of the earlier volumes in the Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories series, all of the contributors to the present volume have, through their research efforts, worked to keep psychoanalytic theory alive and consistent with modern scientific canon. Our goal is not to defend psychoanalytic constructs nor to focus only on those data that support psychodynamic hypotheses. Rather, we hope to test, to refine, and to extend psychoanalytic theory, allowing the data to lead us wherever they must. In this way, the Empirical Studies series can help to reinvigorate psychoanalytic theory and practice and can contribute to the ongoing effort to provide psychoanalysis with a rigorous empirical foundation"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
Scoring the Rorschach
Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist. This is unfortunate, because some of these systems have tremendous clinical value. Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths towards the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation. The editors set the stage with an extended introduction to historical controversies and cutting-edge empirical methods for Rorschach validation. Each chapter presents a different Rorschach scoring system...
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychopathology
The editors of "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychopathology" posit that in the interest of psychoanalysis for the long term, a more solid and secure foundation of extraclinical evidence needs to be established. This volume contributes to that empirical base by presenting the best and most current experimental research inspired by theory in the area of psychoanalytic models of psychopathology.
Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories
Few theories have influenced Western thought as much as psychoanalysis has, even in the absence of empirically confirmatory evidence. The raw data of psychoanalysis are the words and actions of the patient and their interpretation by the analyst. The psychoanalytic session has excluded other observers and, until very recently, even a tape recorder. The only evidence of what transpired between patient and therapist was supplied by the memories, accounts, and records each of them might have kept. The degree to which each could be objective and veridical in recording the events in treatment is not known, but given the intense, emotional nature of the clinical interaction, it is likely that syst...
Empirical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Unconscious
Clinical psychologists, cognitive psychologists, neuropsychologists, social psychologists and developmental psychologists have all become increasingly interested in studying unconscious mental processes empirically. In the words of the editors, The study of the unconscious has the potential to become the unifying force in psychology, linking cognition and emotion, infancy and old age, normal and pathological development, brain and psyche.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Developmental Psychology
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Developmental Psychology explores the growing areas of mutual influence between psychanalytic theory and the study of human development - the impact of object relations theory on the study of infant-caretaker attachment being only one significant example. The empirical research examined in this volume highlights the expansion of psychoanalytic theory from infant and child development to a life span view, recognizing important development milestones throughout adolescence and adulthood and into the realm of aging. The book's contributors extend psychoanalytic theory into a variety of areas: mother-infant interaction, the evolving concept of "illusory mental health," the function of cognition and affect in creativity, and the increasingly clear role of hostility in suicide among younger and older adults.
Empirical Studies of the Therapeutic Hour
The contributors to this volume seek to demonstrate that psychoanalytic theory is a vibrant contributor to the scientific canon. Chapters focus on the patient, on the therapist, and on the process itself.
