Overview

This second edition of Irving Weiner's comprehensive, clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality description has been revised to reflect both modifications in the Rorschach Comprehensive System and new evidence concerning the soundness and utility of Rorschach assessment. It integrates the basic ingredients of structural, thematic, behavioural, and sequence analysis strategies into systematic guidelines for describing personality functioning. The book is divided into three parts. Part I concerns basic considerations in Rorschach testing and deals with conceptual and empirical foundations of the inkblot method and with critical issues in formulating and justifying Rorschach inferences. Part II is concerned with elements of interpretation that contribute to thorough utilization of data in a Rorschach protocol: the Comprehensive System search strategy; the complementary roles of projection and card pull in determining response characteristics; and the interpretive significance of structural variables, content themes, test behaviours, and the sequence in which various response characteristics occur. Each of the chapters presents and illustrates detailed guidelines for translating Rorschach findings into descriptions of structural and dynamic aspects of personality functioning. The discussion throughout emphasizes the implications of Rorschach data for personality assets and liabilities, with specific respect to adaptive and maladaptive features of the manner in which people attend to their experience, use ideation, modulate affect, manage stress, view themselves, and relate to others. Part III presents 10 case illustrations of how the interpretive principles delineated in Part II can be used to identify assets and liabilities in personality functioning and apply this information in clinical practice. These cases represent persons from diverse demographic backgrounds and demonstrate a broad range of personality styles and clinical issues. Discussion of these cases touches on numerous critical concerns in arriving at different diagnoses, formulating treatment plans, and elucidating structural and dynamic determinants of behaviour.

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Author:   Irving B. Weiner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.700kg
ISBN:  

9780805842326

ISBN 10:   0805842322
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   01 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Part I: Basic Considerations in Rorschach Testing. The Nature of the Rorschach. Approaches to Rorschach Interpretation. Part II: Elements of Rorschach Interpretation. The Comprehensive System Search Strategy. Projection and Card Pull in Rorschach Responses. Interpreting Structural Variables. Interpreting Content Themes. Interpreting Test Behaviors. Conducting a Sequence Analysis. Part III: Identifying Adaptive Strengths and Weaknesses: Case Illustrations. Introduction to Case Illustrations. Attending to Experience. Using Ideation. Modulating Affect. Managing Stress. Viewing Oneself and Relating to Others.

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