Biomedical subjects

H M Potash

Publications and source records attributed to H M Potash.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

Assessment through the dialectic: the necessary forgotten link.

Traditional assessment procedures focus on diagnosing psychopathology, thereby implicitly endorsing the medical model. It is equally vital to assess the nonpathological side of the person, the part that strives for increased personal satisfaction and impels the individual to seek psychotherapy. A dialectically based assessment would evaluate both the healthy and unhealthy forces in the person. Such an evaluation would address the nature and extent of participants' experienced pain, the degree to which participants are open to external assistance, and the style of assistance best suited for each individual.

Female↗

PubMed1988

Induced anxiety, defensive style, and performance on the TAT.

The effects of both situationally induced anxiety and defensive style upon TAT performance were investigated in a college student population. Twenty students were given the TAT under anxiety-arousing conditions, while another 20 subjects were tested under non-anxiety-arousing conditions. The separate anxiety measures utilized were total number of words, preludes to stories, outcomes to stories, combined preludes and outcomes, perceptual repression, and overall psychopathology. Situationally induced anxiety significantly affected subjects' performance; their stories contained more words, more preludes, more outcomes and more combined preludes and outcomes than stories obtained under non-anxiety-arousing conditions. Repressors gave more outcomes to their stories than did sensitizers. While anxiety-arousing conditions did produce these outward changes in story format, the dimensions of perceptual repression and overall story quality were unaffected. Hence, situationally induced anxiety changed the more outward aspects of subjects' performance without affecting measures of their underlying psychopathology.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1987

Apprenticeship clinical training in academia.

The value of a pluralistic educational philosophy for the training of clinical psychologists is evaluated. A more intensive faculty-student relationship is proposed whereby students have frequent contact with professors over several courses. When a faculty member teaches several courses to graduate students and provides a process and experiential focus in these classes, the process increases the clinical skills of students and produces high levels of satisfaction. Strategies for introducing process learning in the classroom are outlined, including personal reaction papers, use of student projective protocols, an experiential group psychotherapy course, and team-taught seminars that model the use of free associative thinking.

Curriculum↗

PubMed1985

Size factors on the Bender-Gestalt test and their relation to trait anxiety and situationally induced anxiety.

Hutt's hypothesis that anxiety is reflected by absolute size deviations on reproduced Bender-Gestalt figures was investigated by administering the test to 40 subjects (half under anxiety-arousing and half under non-anxiety-arousing conditions). Measures of trait anxiety and defensive style were found to be intercorrelated significantly and to interact significantly with anxiety condition. Under the non-anxiety-arousing condition repressers (low trait anxious subjects) had fewer size distortions than sensitizers (high trait anxious subjects). However, situationally induced anxiety reversed this effect, whereby sensitizers had greater size distortions than repressers. Situationally induced anxiety heightened the performance of sensitizers, while it interfered with the test protocols of repressers by producing greater size deviations on the Bender-Gestalt.

Adolescent↗