Biomedical subjects

P M Lerner

Publications and source records attributed to P M Lerner.

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PubMed1992

Toward an experiential psychoanalytic approach to the Rorschach.

With a conceptual approach to the Rorschach, there is a strong tie between this test and a theory of personality that lies outside the test itself. Shifts in that personality theory can provide new concepts and formulations for understanding Rorschach data. Such shifts can also promote new and different ways of conceptualizing and using the test. The author contends that changes in psychoanalytic theory are currently facilitating a more experiential view of the Rorschach. He reviews the relationship between personality theory and Rorschach testing, discusses changes in psychoanalytic theory that are leading to a more experiential Rorschach psychology, and describes the meaning of an experiential approach to the Rorschach.

Adult↗

PubMed1990

Rorschach assessment of primitive defenses: a review.

The Lerner & Lerner Scale for assessing primitive defenses is reviewed. According to its conceptual roots, initial studies assessed the scale's efficacy in distinguishing groups of borderline patients from groups of other diagnostic entities. Later studies extended the use of the scale to assess various clinical groups assumed to have a borderline personality structure. Results from several studies indicate a high level of reliability as judged by degree of interrater agreement. In a host of studies, the scale was found to be valid in distinguishing borderline patients from other types of patients, eating disordered patients from normal controls, and gender disturbed children from normal controls. Another Rorschach scale for assessing primitive defenses was also reviewed and compared.

Borderline Personality Disorder↗

PubMed1990

The clinical inference process and the role of theory.

Perhaps the most challenging and creative aspect of clinical testing is the clinical inference process, the sequential steps the examiner takes in transforming the raw test data into a clinically relevant testing report. Unfortunately, this part of the testing process has received little attention in the testing literature. In this article, the specific steps in the inferential process are outlined. In addition, the ways in which theory enter into the inferential process are also discussed.

Humans↗

PubMed1979