A Psychoanalytic Clinician Looks at Diagnostic Labels and Diagnostic Classification Systems

Autor: Howard D. Lerner, Paul M. Lerner
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Journal of Personality Assessment. 89:70-81
ISSN: 1532-7752
0022-3891
DOI: 10.1080/00223890701357340
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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