Principles of Rorschach Interpretation (Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology) - Hardcover

Weiner, Irving B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805842322 ISBN 13: 9780805842326

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Adam Cash, PSYD, is a psychologist in private practice in Pomona, California. He is an adjunct professor at Chapman University.

Irving B. Weiner, PHD, is the Series Editor for the "Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health," He is a prolific author and the editor of the award-winning, twelve-volume "Handbook of Psychology," also from Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0805842322
• ISBN 13: 9780805842326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448