| Preface | 6 |
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| Acknowledgments | 11 |
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| Contents | 12 |
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| The Referral | 15 |
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| What is a Psychological Test Report? | 15 |
| Clarity of the Report | 16 |
| Meaningfulness of the Report | 16 |
| Synthesis of the Final Report | 17 |
| Why a Psychological Report May be Requested | 17 |
| Context of the Referral | 17 |
| Focusing the Report | 18 |
| Summary | 19 |
| Sections of the Psychodiagnostic Report | 20 |
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| Suggested Outline of Sections The Clinical Interview | 21 |
| Cognitive Organization and Reality Testing | 22 |
| Intellectual Functioning | 22 |
| The Nature of Anxiety | 23 |
| Impulse versus Control | 24 |
| Defensive Structure | 25 |
| Identity and Interpersonal Behavior | 26 |
| Diagnosis and Prognosis | 28 |
| Summary | 29 |
| The Clinical Interview | 30 |
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| Meeting the Patient | 30 |
| Samples of Behavior | 31 |
| Samples versus Evidence | 32 |
| The Referral and the Clinical Interview | 32 |
| Diagnostic Formulations Based on the Clinical Interview | 33 |
| Autism | 35 |
| Affect | 36 |
| Ambivalence | 39 |
| Association | 40 |
| Orientation to Time, Place, and Person | 41 |
| Summary | 43 |
| Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning | 45 |
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| Assessing Reality Testing | 45 |
| Primary Autonomous Ego Function | 46 |
| Secondary Autonomous Ego Function | 48 |
| Summary | 54 |
| Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning | 55 |
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| Integrative Function of the Ego | 55 |
| Communicating Findings | 56 |
| The Regulatory Aspect in Relation to Underachievement | 57 |
| Synthetic Function of the Ego | 59 |
| Diagnostic Implications | 59 |
| Communicating Findings | 61 |
| Adaptive Function of the Ego | 61 |
| Summary | 63 |
| Intellectual Functioning | 65 |
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| DSM-IV-TR and Traditional I.Q. Range | 66 |
| Intelligence Test Scales | 67 |
| Verbal and Performance I.Q. | 69 |
| Verbal Equals Performance | 69 |
| Verbal Greater than Performance | 70 |
| Performance Greater than Verbal | 71 |
| Implications of Verbal-Performance Discrepancy | 73 |
| Subdividing Groups of Verbal and Performance Subtests | 73 |
| Use and Implications of ÏAÓ and ÏBÓ Groupings | 75 |
| Summary | 76 |
| Intellectual Functioning | 77 |
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| Estimating Potential Levels of Intellectual Functioning | 77 |
| Intrasubtest Scatter | 78 |
| Quality of Responses | 79 |
| Pro-Rated I.Q. | 79 |
| Analysis of Subtest Scatter | 80 |
| Verbal Subtests (Wechsler Scales) | 81 |
| Performance Subtests (Wechsler Scales) | 83 |
| Conclusion | 85 |
| Summary | 87 |
| The Nature of Anxiety | 88 |
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| Anxiety as a Central Focus in the Report | 88 |
| What does the Term Anxiety Mean? | 89 |
| The PatientÌs Experience of Anxiety | 89 |
| The Central Role of Anxiety in the Psychodiagnostic Evaluation | 90 |
| Is the Anxiety Consciously Experienced? | 91 |
| Is the Anxiety Acted-Out? | 92 |
| Is the Anxiety Somatized? | 95 |
| Is the Anxiety Understood by the Patient? | 97 |
| Sources of Anxiety in the Personality | 97 |
| Summary | 99 |
| Impulse Versus Control | 100 |
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| The Interplay Between Impulses and Controls | 100 |
| Dimensions in the Analysis of Impulses and Controls | 101 |
| The Nature of Impulses | 102 |
| Impulse and Action Orientation | 102 |
| Impulse and Cognition | 103 |
| Types of Impulses Anger | 104 |
| Sexuality | 106 |
| Summary | 108 |
| Impulse Versus Control | 109 |
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| Control Mechanisms Cognitive Controls | 110 |
| Ego Controls | 110 |
| Defense Mechanisms as Controls | 111 |
| Character Traits as Controls | 112 |
| Fantasy as Control | 113 |
| Fear as Control | 114 |
| Maturation: An Index of Impulse Versus Control | 115 |
| Immature: Impulse Dominated | 115 |
| Immature: Control Dominated | 116 |
| Mature Balance of Impulse and Controls | 117 |
| Summary | 119 |
| Defensive Structure | 120 |
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| Individual Defense Mechanisms | 121 |
| Defenses Used to Manage Individual Emotions | 123 |
| Defenses and Character- or Personality-Trait Formation | 125 |
| Defenses Forming Character Trait Patterns | 126 |
| Defenses and the Report | 127 |
| Summary | 131 |
| Interpersonal Behavior | 132 |
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| The Bridge Between Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Functioning | 132 |