Journal of personality assessment
March 2011
Steven K Huprich
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual provides a model of the individual that emphasizes the prominence of unconscious subjective experience in shaping personality and psychopathology. Yet, modern psychiatry and psychology have avoided reference to and assessment of such processes. In this article, I review evidence from the cognitive neuroscience literature that supports the relationship of...
Journal of personality assessment
October 16, 2008
Jan Henk Kamphuis, Nynke Tuin, Marieke Timmermans et al.
20 citations
In this study, we compared dream narratives of children and adolescents living under conditions of enduring interpersonal violence (n = 220) versus those living in peaceful surroundings (n = 99) on content variables that have been associated with traumatic experiences in Rorschach (Exner, 1995 Exner, J. E. Jr. 1995. A Rorschach workbook for the comprehensive system, , 4th ed., Ashville, NC:...
Journal of personality assessment
June 1, 1996
S Ferracuti, R Sacco, R Lazzari
Although dissociative trance disorders, especially possession disorder, are probably more common than is usually though, precise clinical data are lacking. Ten persons undergoing exorcisms for devil trance possession state were studied with the Dissociative Disorders Diagnostic Schedule and the Rorschach test. These persons had many traits in common with dissociative identity disorder patients....
Journal of personality assessment
February 1, 1981
S P Urbina
Reviews measurement approaches applied to dream reports and proposes some methodological cautions that may result in more effective utilization of the dream report in research and assessment. Standardization of dream collection techniques and controls for variability in the length of dream reports are suggested. Further investigation of the intraindividual consistency of dream report measures...
Journal of personality assessment
June 1980
N P Spanos, H J Stam, H L Radtke et al.
Questionnaire measures of dream recall frequency, number of sensory qualities in dreams and emotion in dreams were correlated with several imaginal ability and personality variables in male and female college students. Absorption (i.e., subjects' degree of involvement in such activities as daydreaming, watching a movie, etc.) was the most important predictor of dream variables in females. In...