Assessing Object Relations Phenomena

Contributors. Introduction. Part I: The Rorschach 1. Rorschach Thought Organization and Transference Enactment in the Patient-Examiner Relationship George I. Athey, Jr. 2. Self-Experience and Reality Testing: Synthesis of an Object Relations and an Ego Psychological Model on the Rorschach Alan Sugarman 3. An Object Relations Understanding of Borderline Phenomena on the Rorschach Alan Sugarman 4. Preconditions for Internalization: Introjective, Projective, and Boundary Phenomena in the Rorschach Michael K. Harty 5. An Objective Representation Approach to Rorschach Assessment Howard D. Lerner 6. An Object Relations View of the Borderline Defenses: A Rorschach Analysis Steven H. Cooper and David Arnow Part II: Other Tests 7. Object Relations Aspects of Human Figure Drawings Morton Kissen 8. Combined Use of Human Figure Drawings and the Early Memories Test in Assessing Object Relations Phenomena Morton Kissen 9. An Object Relational Theory of Affect Maturity: Applications to the Thematic Apperception Test Anne E. Thompson 10. Bionian Interpretation of the Wechsler Scales: Paranoid-Schizoid Operations Richard M. Billow Part III: The Testing Process 11. Therapeutic Exploration of Object Relations Patterns Observable During the Testing Process Morton Kissen 12. Treatment Implications of Object Relationships As They Unfold During the Diagnostic Interaction Fred Shectman and Michael K. Harty Part IV: Psychosocial States 13. Assessing Children’s Mental Construction of the Object Bonnie Batter Slade 14. Meshing Character Structures in Marriage Partners Morton Kissen 15. Experiential and Structural Aspects of the (C) Rorschach Response in Patients with Narcissistic Character Pathology Paul M. Lerner 16. Self- and Object Representation in Borderline Disorders Henry M. Bachrach and Frederic J. Levine. Name Index. Subject Index.