Personality assessment in depth : a casebook

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Personality assessment in depth : a casebook

Marshall L. Silverstein

(Personality and clinical psychology / Irving B. Weiner, editor)

Routledge, 2013

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Bibliography: p. [326]-330

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Comprised of five unique and extended case studies, Personality Assessment in Depth examines contemporary clinical problems that are familiar to clinicians, but have not been explored extensively in the personality assessment field. Each case study demonstrates the test protocols of the Rorschach test, Thematic Apperception Test, MMPI or MCMI, and Human Figure Drawings. Important clinical questions and areas of theoretical concern are examined, including differential diagnosis of disorders of affect and personality in light of contemporary viewpoints about these disturbances, personality and adaptation accompanying neuropsychological deficit, and stages of development, including differentiating these from personality characteristics viewed longitudinally, the latter demonstrated by a noteworthy comparison of two evaluations of the same patient, first as a 15-year-old adolescent and then as a 25-year-old adult. A battery of performance and self report personality instruments are applied to the cases, allowing the author to integrate findings across multiple tests and thereby expose clinical psychology students to personality assessment in a broad perspective. Cases are discussed comprehensively, relying on a thorough consideration of thematic content examined alongside formal test scores. Further, the Rorschach findings are examined using both the Exner Comprehensive System and the recently-introduced Rorschach Performance Assessment System approaches. The cases are considered using a broad psychodynamic framework for interpretation, employing classical ego psychology, object relations, and self psychological theoretical perspectives. This is an essential casebook for professionals and students, demonstrating the depth and richness of personality considered alongside the empirical foundations of personality assessment.

Table of Contents

1. Empirically-Based and Content-Based Clinical Interpretation 2. Personality Problems Associated with Affect Dysregulation 3. Personality Problems in Adolescence 4. Personality Problems in Later Life 5. Personality Problems Associated with Cerebral Dysfunction 6. Continuity and Change from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

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  • NCID
    BB11787003
  • ISBN
    • 9780415800426
  • LCCN
    2012025832
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 330 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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