Assessing psychodynamic conflicts: I. Reliability of the idiographic conflict formulation method.
Assessing psychodynamic conflicts: I. Reliability of the idiographic conflict formulation method.
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评估心理动力冲突:I.具体冲突表述方法的可靠性。
DOI:
10.1080/00332747.1989.11024451
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发表时间:
1989
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Cooper,SH
中科院分区:
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作者:
Perry,JC;Augusto,F;Cooper,SH
RECENT years have seen increasing interest in devising methods of studying psychodynamic phenomena. These efforts have had to confront difficulties, first, in specifying the data, the observation language, and rules of inference for psychodynamic propositions, and second, in determining the reliability and validity of the measures used. Given how" fuzzy" traditional psychodynamic concepts are, it is no wonder that psychodynamic clinicians from Freud onward have achieved more success in generating new hypotheses than in testing their validity. As Reichenbach (1938) has observed, science requires that discovery be followed by systematic validation of all new propositions, regardless of their degree of popular acceptance. At the core of efforts to study psychodynamics have been methods to study ego functioning (Bellak and Goldsmith 1984), defense mechanisms (Perry and Cooper 1988), and psychodynamic conflicts. This paper reports on the reliability of the Idiographic Conflict Formulation (lCF), a guided method for formulating an individual's psychodynamic conflicts.Previous work on the reliability of psychodynamic formulations has generally not produced auspicious findings. Seitz (1966) described the failure of a group of psychoanalysts to arrive at a consensus formulation of a case. He noted that each judge applied different levels of inference in interpreting the clinical data, and the group eventually became deadlocked over disagreements. Malan (1976) developed a method that includes two parts: a dynamic hypothesis including the stressors to