A 22-item MMPI alexithymia scale was derived from the Beth Israel Psychosomatic Questionnaire (BIQ). The new yields an 82% hit rate when predicting to BIQ scores and has been shown have impressive stability over time. should provide a rapid, standardized means of assessing in variety populations.

Abstract: Coding form dominance in color, shading, and achromatic color responses (Form Dominant, Form Secondary, Formless) has traditionally been an important aspect of Rorschach assessment ego involvement the regulation emotions. The more involvement, one is accessing cognition to structure modulate one’s experience For psychometric pragmatic reasons, contemporary systems have eliminated or curtailed coding shading (FDSHAC). Positing that this sacrifices interpretive nuance, we recently...

Abstract Because the war was relatively brief, casualties light, and Nation sanctioned socially, veterans of Desert Shield/Storm their families were not anticipated to suffer symptoms trauma or re‐entry stress beyond that expected in routine peacetime military deployments. However, authors argue imposed on by analogous The call duty unexpected, disruptive, “hazardous” (i.e., highly dangerous) which places it category a “catastrophic” stressor as defined McCubbin Figley (1983). deployment...

Alexithymic characteristics in 100 chronic respiratory illness patients were assessed by means of the Beth Israel Psychosomatic Questionnaire (BIQ). The study was designed to explore relationship alexithymia various demographic variables and three disease categories (asthma, tuberculosis, obstructive disease). BIQ found yield a high inter-rater reliability when interviews conducted rated systematic manner. Significant relationships between age, marital status, categories; however, latter two...

In an attempt to assess patient and physician behavior patterns which interfere with effective medical treatment, 100 chronic adult adolescent asthmatics were asked about the frequency nature of their medication non-compliance. The patient's abuse was also related underlying personality characteristics, as measured by MMPI Panic-Fear scale. Finally eleven physicians they patients over under prescribed medications. results are impressive, showing that 54.0% reported some type abuse, may be...

Clinical observations and studies of asthmatic patients have often concluded that there is a strong relationship between the degree patient's anxiety medical intractability his illness. However, psychotherapeutic interventions designed to alleviate patient been noticeably inconsistent in achieving meaningful alleviation asthma. The present paper addresses this apparent paradox by positing existence two types anxiety: a) asthma-specific anxiety, as indexed Panic-Fear symptomatology scores...

MMPI alexithymia scores and panic-fear personality were calculated for 202 adult asthmatic patients. Both sets of shown to be related the number days rehospitalized. In addition, patients who scored high on both scales judged by their attending physicians as being more severelly ill than other these relationships independent objective severity patient's asthma indexed longitudinal pulmonary functions. The study highlights fact that are two dimensions which may contribute medical...

Human movement responses (M) on the Rorschach have been traditionally viewed as lying neither completely in inkblot (external reality) nor within subject's mind (inner world). The authors contend that M is not reducible to "body I have" but am," which a higher level organization of bottom-up and top-down brain networks, integrating body implicit awareness, psychological functioning, social cognition. Two sources evidence suggest close relationship among M, functions, mechanisms. One comes...

Despite its empirical and normative strengths, the underlying conceptual base of Comprehensive Rorschach System at times lacks clarity an overarching theory personality that can help psychodiagnosticians make more clinically relevant inferences. After reviewing functions provided by integral personality, author focuses on EA:es index as a way demonstrating how mechanistic jargon lack guiding lead to misleading contradictory Case examples are provided, some foundations reviewed

Abstract. In its first 100 years, the Rorschach has been heralded as a valuable method for investigating disturbances in thought organization and reasoning. It survived periods of intense scrutiny criticism, contemporary researchers continued to demonstrate empirical validity measure disordered thinking ( Mihura et al., 2013 ). is fitting mark centenary Rorschach’s “experiment” by summarizing contributions Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) reviewing conceptual bases using inkblots assess...

We examined the scoring criteria, subtypes, and interpretative nuances of deviant response (DR) special score Comprehensive Rorschach System. To augment usual understanding DR score, we review concepts fabulizing confabulation in literature discuss traditional meaning confusion surrounding these terms. By equating a subtype DR, excessively embellished response, with Rapaport's (Rapaport, Gill, & Schafer, 1968) "affect-laden fantasy" type set stage for an examination unique clinical...

Abstract. This manuscript presents a single case study of psychotically disturbed adult male (whom we call “Peter”), focusing on similarities and differences in Rorschach interpretation based three different approaches. Specific questions were raised as to whether the client suffered from paranoid psychosis (paranoia) or schizophrenia. Three distinct models psychopathology are initially presented. We then address Peter’s psychotic symptoms, according Parisian approach (specifically Nancy...