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A Psychoanalytic Clinician Looks at Diagnostic Labels and Diagnostic Classification Systems
- Source :
- Journal of Personality Assessment. 89:70-81
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2007.
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Abstract
- As psychoanalytic clinicians, we do not believe that assessment should be diagnosis based. However, we are supportive of attempts to create a diagnostic classification system that reflects something essential about human nature and also serves clinical purposes. In this article, we present a psychoanalytic diagnostic scheme that combines a more descriptive characterological diagnosis with a more structural level of personality organization diagnosis. The scheme is applied to a clinical case and then we discuss it in terms of the functions such a scheme provides for assessment.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Scheme (programming language)
Psychotherapist
Thematic Apperception Test
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Personality Disorders
Diagnostic classification
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Clinical Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Terminology as Topic
Humans
Personality
Clinical case
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychology
computer
computer.programming_language
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15327752 and 00223891
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9d1aab38cd1854de73423c2e61c213c1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223890701357340