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Therapeutic Change

An Object Relations Perspective

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Authors:
  1. Sidney J. Blatt

    1. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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  2. Richard Q. Ford

    1. Austen Riggs Center, Inc., Stockbridge, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Therapeutic Change

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 1-27

  3. Methods for Assessing Therapeutic Change in Clinical Case Reports

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 29-39

  4. Methods for Assessing Therapeutic Change in Psychological Test Protocols

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 41-75

  5. Therapeutic Change in Clinical Case Reports and on the Rorschach

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 77-111

  6. Therapeutic Change on the Thematic Apperception Test

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 113-126

  7. Therapeutic Change on Human Figure Drawings

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 127-148

  8. Configurations of Therapeutic Change

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 149-157

  9. Illustrative Clinical Cases

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 159-178

  10. The Prediction of Therapeutic Change

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 179-196

  11. Conclusion

    • Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford
    Pages 197-207

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-298
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About this book

Dynamic psychotherapy research has become revitalized, especially in the last three decades. This major study by Sidney Blatt, Richard Ford, and their associates evaluates long-term intensive treatment (hospital­ ization and 4-times-a-week psychotherapy) of very disturbed patients at the Austen Riggs Center. The center provides a felicitous setting for recovery-beautiful buildings on lovely wooded grounds just off the quiet main street of the New England town of Stockbridge, Massa­ chusetts. The center, which has been headed in succession by such capable leaders as Robert Knight, Otto Will, Daniel Schwartz, and now Edward Shapiro, has been well known for decades for its type of inten­ sive hospitalization and psychotherapy. Included in its staff have been such illustrious contributors as Erik Erikson, David Rapaport, George Klein, and Margaret Brenman. The Rapaport-Klein study group has been meeting there yearly since Rapaport's death in 1960. Although the center is a long-term care treatment facility, it remains successful and solvent even in these days of increasingly short-term treatment. Sidney Blatt, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale Univer­ sity, and Richard Ford of the Austen Riggs Center, and their associates assembled a sample of 90 patients who had been in long-term treatment and who had been given (initially and at 15 months) a set of psychologi­ cal tests, including the Rorschach, the Thematic Apperception Test, a form of the Wechsler Intelligence Test, and the Human Figure Drawings.

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`Elegant and complex...well organized, well written, and exciting to read....an impressive report of sophisticated and valuable research that gives voice to the revitalization of dynamic psychotherapy research and to the notion that intensive psychotherapy is not just expensive but effective as well....The report of this research will become common knowledge to both researchers and clinicians interested in the therapeutic action of dynamic treatment.'
American Journal of Psychiatry

Authors and Affiliations

  • Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Sidney J. Blatt

  • Austen Riggs Center, Inc., Stockbridge, USA

    Richard Q. Ford

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Therapeutic Change

  • Book Subtitle: An Object Relations Perspective

  • Authors: Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1010-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44601-6Published: 30 April 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1012-7Published: 19 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1010-3Published: 22 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 300

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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