Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing Fourth Edition
Henry Kellerman Anthony Burry
Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report Fourth Edition
Henry Kellerman, PH.D. Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY, USA
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Anthony Burry, PH.D. Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2007927171
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-71369-4
e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-71370-0
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Preface
This Handbook is designed to offer psychology students, as well as professional psychologists, a central resource for the construction and organization of psychological test reports. Rather than using a workbook approach and presenting sample reports for study, this text aims to help the reader conceptualize the theory of psychological report development by carefully examining the analysis of personality and the logic of effectively communicating such psychological phenomena in the report. The rationale of each section of an effective, well-aimed psychological and psychodiagnostic workup is analyzed in detail so that the writing of the report can be organized section-by-section to reflect a clear and synthesized view in the analysis of the patient’s personality. The psychodiagnostic report is a communication between the tester and the referring person and plays a vital role in the ultimate treatment or intervention plan for the patient. Because analysis of personality is vitally connected to report writing, the distinctiveness of each person tested is stressed. Use of this book, therefore, should help both students and psychologists formulate reports based on the particular needs and conflicts of the individuals under consideration—in sum, a guide to transforming the understanding of the person under study into a logical, integrated written communication—an analysis of the personality. The array of d