Written by a scholar who is a therapist and a
psychodiagnostician, this book documents the direct relationship
between patient response patterns to a battery of psychological
tests, and their subsequent behavior in psychotherapy. Unlike other
books in the field, which concentrate on psychodiagnostics or
psychological report writing, Blank takes the reader,
session-by-session, through the therapeutic notes of ten patients
who were in therapy. At each step of the way, patient behavior in
therapy is shown alongside test response patterns.
This book, first published in 1965, continues to provide a major
contribution, both as a practical manual and as a reference book
for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, trainees
and students. Anyone who is interested in using psychological
evaluations to better understand the intricacies of the therapeutic
process will fi nd the book an invaluable aid. So also will those
who want to sharpen their diagnostic skills as part of theory
construction.
The author also provides a description and rationale of commonly
employed psycho-diagnostic techniques, diagnostic overviews for
each of the ten patients emphasizing the dynamics of differing
diagnostic patterns and their prognostic implications, complete
test data and process therapy notes for each of the ten patients,
and an analysis of the complex interplay of personality resources
of the patient, the personality of the therapist and the fortuitous
circumstances that enter into every therapeutic situation.
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