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J C Andorfer

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PubMed1985

Multiple personality in the human information-processor: a case history and theoretical formulation.

A case of multiple personality is presented, which details the roles of the "executive" and "destabilizer" personalities in the functioning of the overall system, and in treatment. A neo-associationist model of personality, affect and cognition, previously presented by the author (Andorfer, 1980) and applied to schizophrenia (Andorfer, 1984), is here extended to multiple personality. This model is used to account for the mechanisms and clinical phenomena of dissociation and reintegration and the role of the "executive" personality in each. Strategies for treatment are recommended.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1984

Affective pattern recognition and schizophrenia.

The process by which people extract the emotional nuances of nonverbal communication is treated as a special case of pattern recognition. This process of affective pattern recognition is presumed to involve three conceptually distinct levels: The primary or cue level, the secondary or configurational level, and the propositional or predictive level. It is proposed that schizophrenia arises from defects in either or both the cue and configurational levels and that the hypothesized defects can account for the common cognitive and social-interpersonal phenomena of schizophrenia. Finally, the therapeutic implications of this model of schizophrenia are considered.

Affect↗
PubMed1975

The conceptual congruence inventory (CCI): an experimental tool for the investigation and measurement of 22 common affective concepts.

This paper describes a prototype of the Conceptual Congruence Inventory (CCI), designed to assess the degree of overinclusion and underinclusion of 22 of a person's affective concepts with respect to a standard group. The CCI, the text of which is 15 short descriptions of characters' behavior evaluated for certain "traits" by the testee, was standardized for scale means and SDs with a group of 125 college students. An additional sample of 20 students was used to establish test-retest reliability over a period of 6 months, the correlation coefficient of which was .899.

Adolescent↗