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Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Russell T. Hurlburt

    1. University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA

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Part of the book series: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy (EPPS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Preliminary Comments Designed to Suspend the Introspection Controversy

    1. Preliminary Comments Designed to Suspend the Introspection Controversy

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 1-7

  3. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 9-16

  4. Method

    1. Method

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 17-29

  5. Method Considerations

    1. Method Considerations

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 31-37

  6. The Normal Subjects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-40
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    2. A College Freshman

      • Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 41-60

    3. A Professional Potter

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 61-75

    4. A Record Store Manager

      • Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 77-94

    5. A Medical Doctor

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 95-109

    6. A Graduate Student

      • Sonja Smith
      Pages 111-123

    7. A Research Associate

      • Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 125-142

    8. Characteristics of Normal Inner Experience

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 143-152

  7. The Schizophrenic Subjects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-155
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    2. A Schizophrenic Woman with “Goofed-Up” Images

      • Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 157-191

    3. A Schizophrenic Man with (Perhaps) No Inner Experience

      • Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 193-225

    4. A Decompensating Schizophrenic

      • Leny Meertens
      Pages 227-242

    5. A Schizophrenic Woman Who Heard Voices of the Gods

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 243-252

    6. Implications for Understanding Schizophrenia

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 253-263

    7. Discussion

      • Russell T. Hurlburt
      Pages 265-280
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What are the basic data of psychology? In the early years of experimental psychology, they were reports of ''brighter'' or "heavier" or other esti­ mates of the magnitude of differences between the sensory stimuli pre­ sented in psychophysical experiments. Introspective accounts of the ex­ perience of seeing colored lights or shapes were important sources of psychological data in the laboratories of Cornell, Harvard, Leipzig, or Wiirzburg around the tum of the century. In 1910, John B. Watson called for the objectification of psychological research, even parodying the typical subjective introspective reports that emerged from Edward Bradford Titchener's laboratory. For almost fifty years psychologists largely eschewed subjective information and turned their attention to observable behavior. Rats running mazes or pigeons pecking away on varied schedules of reinforcement became the scientific prototypes for those psychologists who viewed themselves as "doing science. " Psychoanalysts and clinical psychologists sustained interest in the personal reports of patients or clients as valuable sources of data for research. For the psychologists, questionnaires and projective tests that allowed for quantitative analysis and psychometrics seemed to circum­ vent the problem of subjectivity. Sigmund Freud's introduction of on­ going free association became the basis for psychoanalysis as a therapy and as a means of learning about human psychology. Slips-of-the­ tongue, thought intrusions, fantasies, hesitations, and sudden emo­ tional expressions became the data employed by psychoanalysts in for­ mulating hypotheses about resistance, memory, transference, and a host of presumed human wishes and conflicts.

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  • University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA

    Russell T. Hurlburt

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