Do you believe me? Countertransference responses to client doubt and reality-testing disturbance.

2000 ◽  
pp. 85-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance J. Dalenberg
Keyword(s):  
Reality Testing

Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study.

Dreaming ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denholm J. Aspy ◽  
Paul Delfabbro ◽  
Michael Proeve ◽  
Philip Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Reality Testing ◽  
Induction Study

scholarly journals Stimulus Features of the Object Relations Technique Affecting the Linguistic Qualities of Individuals’ Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attà Negri ◽  
Martino Ongis
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Referential Activity ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Referential Process ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Stimulus Features

AbstractPrevious studies on projective techniques have investigated the effects of variation in stimulus features on individuals’ response behavior. In particular, the influence of chromatic colors and form definition on the images elicited by the stimuli has been tested. Most studies have focused on the Rorschach and TAT and have examined effects in terms of variables such as reality testing and reactions to perceptual details. This is the first study to examine the effects of variation in visual stimuli as represented in features of the Object Relations Technique (ORT) cards on linguistic indicators of connection to emotional experience using measures of the referential process. The ORT was administered to 207 Italian non-clinical participants to explore effects of color, form and content variation on language style. The sample was stratified by age, gender, marital status and education to be representative of the Italian population. The stories told in response to the card images were rated using computerized linguistic measures, including the Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary—Italian version (IWRAD) which indicates the degree to which language is connected to nonverbal experience, and the Weighted Reflection/Reorganization List—Italian version (IWRRL) which detects a linguistic style of personal re-elaboration of emotional experience. The results provide support for the color-affect and form-reality testing hypotheses. Cards with better form definition, including color definition, and with fewer silhouettes of people elicited responses that were higher in IWRAD and lower in IWRRL, and also higher in the degree to which the two measures varied together. Implications of the results for use of ORT in clinical assessment and intervention are discussed.

Reality Testing in a Complex Prediction Situation

1957 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-288
Author(s):  
George Douglas Mayo ◽  
David S. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Reality Testing

Reality sense and reality testing

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avery D. Weisman
Keyword(s):  
Reality Testing

scholarly journals The Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Schizophrenia in Adolescence

1967 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Katz
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Program ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strengthening Effect ◽  
Supportive Psychotherapy ◽  
Environmental Manipulation ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
Schizophrenic Reaction ◽  
Real Person ◽  
The Relationship

It is necessary to establish the presence or absence of a borderline schizophrenic reaction early, for it is of great importance in deciding on the treatment program for the patient. Its presence is suspected if there are symptoms that indicate that the patient is developing a thought disorder, and/or a disturbance of affect of schizophrenic type, and/or is beginning to detach from reality. It is also suspected if there is a persistence of such symptoms as disturbances of judgment, poor empathy and understanding of others, an absence of enjoyment, periods of seclusiveness, or sexual and philosophical preoccupations. Mixtures of the neuroses, with free-floating anxiety often indicates an underlying schizophrenic process. In the treatment of a patient with a borderline schizophrenic reaction, the prime focus should be on the prevention of a psychosis. The child should be protected against severe stresses, which may involve some environmental manipulation. Anxiety has a deteriorating effect and tranquillizers may have to be used. Supportive psychotherapy is of great value. It is essential that the relationship with the therapist be a positive one. The therapist should be a real person who offers the adolescent patient someone with whom to identify. One strengthens useful defences and lessens the need for the other defences by reducing the ego's needs for those defences, e.g. by reality testing the fantasied threats, by offering a less punitive and less rigid superego, and by manipulating the environment to reduce stress. It is often helpful to orient the patient towards pleasurable experiences which have an ego-strengthening effect. Here then, in the handling of the defences and in the management of anxiety, can be seen a major difference in the treatment of patients with a borderline schizophrenic reaction, from the treatment of patients with psycho-neuroses or personality disorders. Failure to recognize the presence of an underlying schizophrenic process may lead to the choice of the wrong treatment program for the patient, with a resultant worsening of his condition and the onset of a psychosis.

scholarly journals When mountains weep: psychological care for those affected by the earthquake in northern Pakistan

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 454-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad M. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
Rotation Scheme ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk

Fate, it seems, conjures up all sorts of ways for us to be in a certain place at a certain time. In 1982 as a trainee psychiatrist in the UK, I found myself co-facilitating a group at the Castlewood Day Hospital, then part of the Bexley psychiatric rotation scheme, in the south-east of London. Group psychotherapy was part of our training. Held thrice a week the groups were open-ended and patients ranged from those with interpersonal relationship and personality problems to those with anxiety and substance misuse problems. At the time the experience was somewhat baffling. Not only was I from a different country and culture, my exposure to psychiatry was limited to about 12 months. More often than not I felt lost as I tried to come to terms with ‘group dynamics', ‘reality testing’, ‘transference’, ‘multiple transference’, ‘group cohesion’, ‘group pressure’, etc.

scholarly journals Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Inventory of Personality Organization-Reality Testing Subscale

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Dagnall ◽  
Andrew Denovan ◽  
Andrew Parker ◽  
Kenneth Drinkwater ◽  
R. Stephen Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Organization ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

Local Excision: Some Reality Testing

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Mellgren ◽  
Joel Goldberg ◽  
David A. Rothenberger
Keyword(s):  
Local Excision ◽  
Reality Testing
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