The plan of this volume is the following: 1) to analyze the major dynamics of test situation and the interpersonal tester-patient relationship, and to cast this analysis in contemporary Freudian concepts (ego vs. id and superego). This ego-oriented analysis will deal with many realistic and unrealistic psychological constants in the interpersonal test relationship as well as with problems raised by the individual personality problems of tester and patient;  With this study of reality, conflict and defense in the testing situation as a necessary background for the subsequent discussion of Rorschach theory and interpretation, the book will then cover an extended analysis if the response process. Here the author explores preconscious and unconscious as well as conscious processes involved in Rorschach responses. This rationale relies heavily on Rapaport's analysis of thought processes and Schachtel's elaboration of the motivational and affective forces behind these responses. it also depends greatly on Freud's analysis of dreams and Kris's psychoanalytic contributions to the psychology creativity.  The second major section of the book is a detailed study of the interplay of impulses, defenses, and adaptive strivings in test responses, especially the defenses.

Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing: Theory and Application

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Roy Schafer

Psychology & Counseling

Grune Stratton

<p>"Should be of considerable interest to a wider public, since it proposes a radical reformulation of psychoanalytical theory which, if accepted, would render outmoded almost all the analytical jargon that has crept into the language of progressive, enlightened post-Freudian people."-Charles Rycroft, The New York Review of Books "Schafer's arguments have considerable cogency. The tendency to over-theorize so that the translation of abstractions into the language of ordinary discourse between analyst and patient has become increasingly difficult is a fault; Schafer goes a long way towards redressing it, and his efforts to include meaning and the person in the form of his language is an achievement."-Michael Fordham, The Times Higher Education Supplement</p>

A New Language for Psychoanalysis

Yale University Press

<p>This book is written for those who have completed at least their basic clinical training in administering, scoring and interpreting Rorschach test results; preferably the reader should also have clinical testing experience beyond the doctoral level.... More than a solid grounding in Rorschach principles and techniques is required for an adequate reading of this book. The reader should also have a general introduction to psychoanalytic theory and to the data of psychoanalytic observation. Obviously, a book of this sort cannot at the same time attempt to be a text on psychoanalysis; some background of psychoanalytic study is therefore necessarily assumed, even though the reference of psychoanalytic concepts that stand out in this book, such as defense, primary and secondary processes, regression in the service of the ego, and ego identity will be specified along with the indications of relevant psychoanalytic literature.... As a theoretical and clinical statement, this book covers only certain normal and psychiatric subjects, namely those who are (1) white, (2) American or well adapted to American culture, (3) at least average in intelligence and education, (4) from subcultural backgrounds that are not extremely bleak or deviant, (5) in late adolescence or older, and (6) without noteworthy "organic" psychological deficit. The assumptions developed here seem to apply - with appropriate modifications - in other cultural, intellectual, age and neurological contexts, but at present I cannot specify how much they do apply and with which specific modifications and supplementary conceptions. --- excerpts from book's Preface</p>

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A New Language for Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing