: Henry Kellerman, Anthony Burry
: Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387713700
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: Angewandte Psychologie
: English
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The Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing is an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. It takes the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.

This new edition covers emerging areas in borderline and narcissistic pathologies, psychological testing of preschool children, and bilingual populations. It also discusses the most current clinical issues and evaluating populations on which standard psychological tests have not been standardized.



Henry Kellerman, Ph.D, Diplomate in clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, is training alalyst and senior supervisor at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City. He is the author and editor of many books and numerous scientific papers and was the editor of the Columbia University Press book series Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives. A former National Institute of Mental Health Fellow, Dr. Kellerman is also a Fellow of th American Psychological Association and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He has held faculty and staff positions at several hospitals and universities and maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in New York City.

Anthony Burry, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and Diplomate, American Board of Assessment Psychology, was formerly the Director of Psychology Internship Training, supervisor, and faculty memeber at the Postgraduate Center of Mental Health in New York City. Dr. Burry was also the Director of Psychological Evaluation at Comprehensive Psychological Services, and a Senior Supervisor of school mental health programs at the Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy. He was Director of Psychology at Community Services for Human Development in New York City and was also a consultant in psychological assessment for seminary education for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Dr. Burry has also held clinical positions involving psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic testing at St.Vincent's Guidance Institute in New York City and at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.  Dr. Burry maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostic testing in New York City.

Preface6
Acknowledgments11
Contents12
The Referral15
What is a Psychological Test Report?15
Clarity of the Report16
Meaningfulness of the Report16
Synthesis of the Final Report17
Why a Psychological Report May be Requested17
Context of the Referral17
Focusing the Report18
Summary19
Sections of the Psychodiagnostic Report20
Suggested Outline of Sections The Clinical Interview21
Cognitive Organization and Reality Testing22
Intellectual Functioning22
The Nature of Anxiety23
Impulse versus Control24
Defensive Structure25
Identity and Interpersonal Behavior26
Diagnosis and Prognosis28
Summary29
The Clinical Interview30
Meeting the Patient30
Samples of Behavior31
Samples versus Evidence32
The Referral and the Clinical Interview32
Diagnostic Formulations Based on the Clinical Interview33
Autism35
Affect36
Ambivalence39
Association40
Orientation to Time, Place, and Person41
Summary43
Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning45
Assessing Reality Testing45
Primary Autonomous Ego Function46
Secondary Autonomous Ego Function48
Summary54
Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning55
Integrative Function of the Ego55
Communicating Findings56
The Regulatory Aspect in Relation to Underachievement57
Synthetic Function of the Ego59
Diagnostic Implications59
Communicating Findings61
Adaptive Function of the Ego61
Summary63
Intellectual Functioning65
DSM-IV-TR and Traditional I.Q. Range66
Intelligence Test Scales67
Verbal and Performance I.Q.69
Verbal Equals Performance69
Verbal Greater than Performance70
Performance Greater than Verbal71
Implications of Verbal-Performance Discrepancy73
Subdividing Groups of Verbal and Performance Subtests73
Use and Implications of ÏAÓ and ÏBÓ Groupings75
Summary76
Intellectual Functioning77
Estimating Potential Levels of Intellectual Functioning77
Intrasubtest Scatter78
Quality of Responses79
Pro-Rated I.Q.79
Analysis of Subtest Scatter80
Verbal Subtests (Wechsler Scales)81
Performance Subtests (Wechsler Scales)83
Conclusion85
Summary87
The Nature of Anxiety88
Anxiety as a Central Focus in the Report88
What does the Term Anxiety Mean?89
The PatientÌs Experience of Anxiety89
The Central Role of Anxiety in the Psychodiagnostic Evaluation90
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 Personality97
Summary99
Impulse Versus Control100
The Interplay Between Impulses and Controls100
Dimensions in the Analysis of Impulses and Controls101
The Nature of Impulses102
Impulse and Action Orientation102
Impulse and Cognition103
Types of Impulses Anger104
Sexuality106
Summary108
Impulse Versus Control109
Control Mechanisms Cognitive Controls110
Ego Controls110
Defense Mechanisms as Controls111
Character Traits as Controls112
Fantasy as Control113
Fear as Control114
Maturation: An Index of Impulse Versus Control115
Immature: Impulse Dominated115
Immature: Control Dominated116
Mature Balance of Impulse and Controls117
Summary119
Defensive Structure120
Individual Defense Mechanisms121
Defenses Used to Manage Individual Emotions123
Defenses and Character- or Personality-Trait Formation125
Defenses Forming Character Trait Patterns126
Defenses and the Report127
Summary131
Interpersonal Behavior132
The Bridge Between Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Functioning132