The Anatomy of Change : A Menninger Foundation Report on Testing the Effects of Psychotherapy

"The standard test battery developed by Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer at the Menninger Foundation constituted the most important research instrument (apart from clinical interviews) of the Foundation's psychotherapy research project. The battery's influence on clinical diagnosis and on research in personality assessment and change has been tremendous. In the hands of highly trained and skilled psychologists, the battery, constructed chiefly around projective tests, has been invaluable for diagnosing difficult cases. The complexity of interpreting it, however, and the many dimensions along which its findings can be organized, have made it frustratingly difficult to use in formal research. And its cost, because of the great time investment it requires, has made clinicians reticent about using it on a large scale. Dr. Appelbaum, an experienced psychotherapist and psychoƯ analyst, was a distinguished member of the group of highly skilled psychologists who applied this test battery in the psychotherapy research reported here, although his role in this instance was reƯ stricted to analyzing the findings of others who administered and interpreted the tests. In recent years, Dr. Appelbaum has been evalƯ uating the mechanisms and effects of various psychotherapeutic approaches"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Task and Methods....Pages 1-18 How the Tests Were Used....Pages 19-77 Change in Each Patient Variable from Initial to Termination....Pages 79-214 Overall Assessment of Change for Better or Worse....Pages 215-219 Profile of Change: Factor Analytic Study of Patient Variables....Pages 221-225 Patterns of Change....Pages 227-238 Psychological Tests and Paired Comparison Analyses....Pages 239-242 Comparing the Usefulness of Tests with Other Psychiatric Information....Pages 243-262 Follow-Up Study....Pages 263-284 Overview and Conclusions....Pages 285-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-308