The Structural Approach in Psychological Testing

The Structural Approach in Psychological Testing covers the basic concepts for various types of personality or for the specific relationships of treatment possibilities to personality disturbances. The book describes the structural approach in psychological evaluation and its relation to developments in psychology in general and clinical psychology; the psychoanalytic foundations of the structural theory; and structural concepts in test analysis and personality description. The text also discusses the structural concepts to schizophrenia in developing the theoretical framework of schizophrenia as faulty ego synthesis, as well as the structural approach using case materials. The vacillation between reality and psychosis and the system of warding off confusion are also encompassed.

Preface

Chapter I The Place and Importance of the Structural Approach in Psychological Evaluation

II Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Structural Theory

III Structural Concepts in Test Analysis and Personality Description

IV Schizophrenia: Faulty Ego Synthesis

V Mechanical Man

VI Kaleidoscopic Ego

VII Vacillation Between Reality and Psychosis

VIII A System of Warding Off Confusion

Appendix A Supplementary Manual for the Sorting Test

References