Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective / Edition 1

by Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford

Overview

Dynamic psychotherapy research has become revitalized, especially in the last three decades. This major study by Sidney Blatt, Richard Ford, and their associates evaluates long-term intensive treatment (hospital­ ization and 4-times-a-week psychotherapy) of very disturbed patients at the Austen Riggs Center. The center provides a felicitous setting for recovery-beautiful buildings on lovely wooded grounds just off the quiet main street of the New England town of Skbridge, Massa­ chusetts. The center, which has been headed in succession by such capable leaders as Robert Knight, Otto Will, Daniel Schwartz, and now Edward Shapiro, has been well known for decades for its type of inten­ sive hospitalization and psychotherapy. Included in its staff have been such illustrious contributors as Erik Erikson, David Rapaport, George Klein, and Margaret Brenman. The Rapaport-Klein study group has been meeting there yearly since Rapaport's death in 1960. Although the center is a long-term care treatment facility, it remains successful and solvent even in these days of increasingly short-term treatment. Sidney Blatt, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University, and Richard Ford of the Austen Riggs Center, and their associates assembled a sample of 90 patients who had been in long-term treatment and who had been given (initially and at 15 months) a set of psychologi­ cal tests, including the Rorschach, the Thematic Apperception Test, a form of the Wechsler Intelligence Test, and the Human Figure Drawings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306446016
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/30/1994
Series:	NATO Science Series B:
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Therapeutic Change.- 2: Methods for Assessing Therapeutic Change in Clinical Case Reports.- 3: Methods for Assessing Therapeutic Change in Psychological Test Prools.- 4: Therapeutic Change in Clinical Case Reports and on the Rorschach.- 5: Therapeutic Change on the Thematic Apperception Test.- 6: Therapeutic Change on Human Figure Drawings.- 7: Configurations of Therapeutic Change.- 8: Illustrative Clinical Cases.- 9: The Prediction of Therapeutic Change.- 10: Conclusion.- References.- Appendixes.- 1. The Strauss-Harder Case Record Rating Scale.- 2. The Fairweather Ward Behavior Rating Scale.- 3. The Menninger Scales for Rating Interpersonal Relations: Motivation for Treatment, Sublimatory Effectiveness, Impulsivity, Superego Integration, Quality of Object Relations.- 4. Types of Thought Disorder.- 5. A Developmental Analysis of the Concept of the Object on the Rorschach.- 6. Mutuality of Autonomy on the Rorschach.- 7. Scales of Premorbid Social Adjustment in Schizophrenia.- 8. Synopsis of Anaclitic and Introjective Configurations of Psychopathology.- 9. Manual for Scoring Defenses on the Thematic Apperception Test.- 10. Standard Deviation for All Variables Derived from Clinical Case Records and Psychological Test Prools at Time 1 and Time 2.

Editorial Reviews

'Elegant and complex...well organized, well written, and exciting to read....an impressive report of sophisticated and valuable research that gives voice to the revitalization of dynamic psychotherapy research and to the notion that intensive psychotherapy is not just expensive but effective as well....The report of this research will become common knowledge to both researchers and clinicians interested in the therapeutic action of dynamic treatment.'
American Journal of Psychiatry

From the Publisher

A study of a 15-month period in the lives of 90 very troubled young adults, with a view to evaluating how such persons, so seriously disturbed as to require hospitalization, might change when undertaking long-term, intensive, psychodynamically oriented treatment on an inpatient basis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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