Biomedical subjects

J Rosegrant

Publications and source records attributed to J Rosegrant.

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PubMed1995

The anal world of a six-year-old boy.

Clinical material from the psychoanalysis of a 6-year-old boy is presented which manifests the creation of an anal psychic world--a psychic world which is blatantly anal in content and characterised by the formal qualities of de-differentiation and interchangeability, which are linked to anal experience and the level of cognitive maturation typical during the anal phase. This case demonstrates the existence at an earlier developmental level of perverse qualities which have previously been identified in adults. In particular, similarities are noted with the fantasies of adult perverts and the Marquis de Sade. Psychodynamic antecedents which have previously been extrapolated from investigation of these adults are confirmed in statu nascendi in this child. Like adult perverts, this boy appears to have created his anal world to defend against acknowledgement of sexual and generational differences. His anal world play is conceptualised as an example of a perverse play style.

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PubMed1984

Rorschach object relations and fantasy themes incorrectly scored as determinants.

Determinants are perceptual features of inkblots, but movement, reflections, pairs, and subdivisions of shading, scored as determinants, actually represent associative elaborations. Such misclassification of determinants obfuscates the response process and makes it difficult to evaluate the validity of inferences. To the extent that these scores are useful, they can be improved upon by fully developed content analysis. Movement, reflections, and pairs can best be understood as manifestations of object relations content themes, as scored in systems developed by Blatt, Krohn & Mayman, and Urist. Determinant scores for reflections and pairs should be eliminated. Shading should not be subdivided into texture, vista, and diffuse shading, since these are content themes without clear psychological significance or clear empirical support.

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PubMed1982

Primary process patterning in college students' inkblot responses.

Holzman Inkblots were administered under standard instructions and under instructions to respond imaginatively. Protocols were scored according to Holt's system for scoring primary process. Subcategories of primary process proved to be reliable and to differ in prominence. A stable pattern of primary process, characterizing college students' inkblot responses, appears to represent students' intuition of what it means to be imaginative.

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PubMed1980

Adaptive regression of two types.

Adaptive regression is considered to be of two types: a relatively uncommunicable private type and a relatively communicable public type. Private adaptive regression was operationalized by hypnotic suggestibility and by a questionnaire. Public adaptive regression was operationalized by two measures of esthetic sensitivity. It was hypothesized that the psychodynamics of the two types are as follows: Hypothesis 1: Private adaptive regression involves engaging in primary process because of secondary process motivation. Hypothesis 2: Public adaptive regression involves engaging in primary process because of secondary process motivation. Hypothesis 3: Public adaptive regression involves secondary process shaping of primary process to a greater extent than does private adaptive regression. Measures of engaging in primary process were derived from inkblot responses. Hypotheses 1 and 3 were supported: Hypothesis 2 was not.

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