Understanding the dynamics of partner violence has been complicated by the fact that "partner vio... more Understanding the dynamics of partner violence has been complicated by the fact that "partner violence" may include both partner and generally violent men. The authors hypothesized that partner violence may involve intimacy-related threats to masculinity, violence toward strangers may relate to alcohol abuse, and both partner and stranger violence may relate to object relations pathology. College men were nonviolent or violent toward partners, strangers, or partners and strangers (n = 10 men in each group). Partner violence was related to higher Schwartz Castration Anxiety Scale scores (B. Schwartz, 1991), from Thematic Apperception Test responses. Stranger violence was related to higher Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) and MacAndrew Alcoholism
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Aug 1, 2013
In this cross-sectional study, we compare the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) Insight ... more In this cross-sectional study, we compare the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) Insight Scale scores in three groups of psychoanalytic patients. Psychoanalysts completed the SWAP to describe a real patient at the beginning of analysis, a real patient at the end of analysis, or a hypothetical ideal patient at the end of a successful analysis. The SWAP Insight Scale scores were lowest for the patients at the beginning of analysis and highest for the hypothetical patients at the ideal end of analysis. Further, the correlations between the SWAP Insight Scale and Global Assessment of Functioning scores were not significant at the beginning of analysis and were significant at the end of analysis. The data provide support for the known groups and convergent validity of the SWAP Insight Scale.
Freud (1909/1955) hypothesized a conflict between love and hate in obsessive neurosis. To test th... more Freud (1909/1955) hypothesized a conflict between love and hate in obsessive neurosis. To test this relationship, we compared a Thematic Apperception Test-based measure of aggressive fantasies in college men who scored either high or low on the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory–Revised. 64 undergraduate men from beginning classes in psychology participated. Their mean age was 19.4 yr. ( SD = 1.7). 16 men with high scores had significantly higher scores on a TAT-based measure of aggressive fantasies toward parents, partners, and others than 15 men with low scores, which is consistent with Freud's hypothesis.
... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of... more ... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of emotional attachments in battered women and other relationships of intermittent abuse. Vic-timology: An International Journal, 6, 139-155. Edleson, JL, & Syers, M.(1990). ...
... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of... more ... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of emotional attachments in battered women and other relationships of intermittent abuse. Vic-timology: An International Journal, 6, 139-155. Edleson, JL, & Syers, M.(1990). ...
CHILDBIRTH is an experience which is affected by prenatal variables [l-5] and is an experience wh... more CHILDBIRTH is an experience which is affected by prenatal variables [l-5] and is an experience which affects the subsequent development of the child [6] and perhaps the subsequent development of the family. Understanding the childbirth experience has been a slow process, perhaps inhibited by the practical problems of investigating an experience which extends over a lengthy period of hours and which is, in the United States, a private event which occurs in a hospital setting.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1207 S15327752jpa6002_14, Jun 10, 2010
We investigated whether Scale 2 (Depression [D]) and the Wiggins Content Scale of Depression (DEP... more We investigated whether Scale 2 (Depression [D]) and the Wiggins Content Scale of Depression (DEP) of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) have different clinical correlates when only one of these two scales is elevated. According, a group of patients who elevated DEP higher than Scale 2 (DEP > 2) were compared with a group of patients who elevated Scale 2 higher than DEP (2 > DEP). The patients with DEP > 2 were rated as being less severe than the patients with 2 > DEP on the following Brief Psychiatric Rating Scales: Somatic Concern (SOM), Emotional Withdrawal (WDRA), Depressive Mood (DEP), and Blunted Affect (AFF). The patients with DEP > 2 were rated as more severe on Excitement (EXC). The patients with DEP > 2 were more likely to receive the Axis I diagnoses of: bipolar disorder, manic, and alcohol abuse. Schizophrenia was equally probable for patients in the two groups. It appears that these two MMPI scales of depression have different clinical correlates when either one scale or the other is elevated.
Karliner, Westrich, Shedler, and Mayman (1996) developed the Early Memory Index (EMI) to assess m... more Karliner, Westrich, Shedler, and Mayman (1996) developed the Early Memory Index (EMI) to assess mental health, narrative coherence, and traumatic experiences in reports of early memories. We assessed the convergent validity of EMI scales with data from 103 women from an urban primary care clinic (Study 1) and data from 48 women and 24 men from a suburban primary care clinic (Study 2). Patients provided early memory narratives and completed self-report measures of psychopathology, trauma, and health care utilization. In both studies, lower scores on the Mental Health scale and higher scores on the Traumatic Experiences scale were related to higher scores on measures of psychopathology and childhood trauma. Less consistent associations were found between the Mental Health and Traumatic Experiences scores and measures of health care utilization. The Narrative Coherence scale showed inconsistent relationships across measures in both samples. In analyses assessing the overall fit between...
This study assessed the relationship between psychopathology with the Personality Assessment Scre... more This study assessed the relationship between psychopathology with the Personality Assessment Screener (PAS) and childhood physical and sexual abuse and adult physical and sexual partner violence in a primary care sample of 98 urban-dwelling African American women. Patients completed the PAS, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Conflict Tactics Scale. The PAS total score significantly correlated with all measures of childhood and adult abuse. Stepwise regression analyses revealed that PAS element scores of Suicidal Thinking and Hostile Control significantly predicted a history of childhood physical abuse; Suicidal Thinking, Hostile Control, and Acting Out significantly predicted a history of childhood sexual abuse; Suicidal Thinking, Negative Affect, and Alienation significantly predicted current adult partner physical violence; and Psychotic Features, Alcohol Problems, and Anger Control significantly predicted current adult sexual partner violence. The PAS appears to be a us...
Two studies of how parents use pronouns in describing their newborn infants are presented. Father... more Two studies of how parents use pronouns in describing their newborn infants are presented. Fathers more often than mothers used the neuter pronoun "it" in describing their new babies. Parents who used the neuter pronoun were more often multiparous, were more likely to have attended childbirth preparation classes, and did not differ from other parents in parenting behaviors or husband-wife communication patterns assessed six months after birth. The data suggest that pronominalization may be a linguistic component of the development of the parental role.
Understanding the dynamics of partner violence has been complicated by the fact that "partner vio... more Understanding the dynamics of partner violence has been complicated by the fact that "partner violence" may include both partner and generally violent men. The authors hypothesized that partner violence may involve intimacy-related threats to masculinity, violence toward strangers may relate to alcohol abuse, and both partner and stranger violence may relate to object relations pathology. College men were nonviolent or violent toward partners, strangers, or partners and strangers (n = 10 men in each group). Partner violence was related to higher Schwartz Castration Anxiety Scale scores (B. Schwartz, 1991), from Thematic Apperception Test responses. Stranger violence was related to higher Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) and MacAndrew Alcoholism
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Aug 1, 2013
In this cross-sectional study, we compare the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) Insight ... more In this cross-sectional study, we compare the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) Insight Scale scores in three groups of psychoanalytic patients. Psychoanalysts completed the SWAP to describe a real patient at the beginning of analysis, a real patient at the end of analysis, or a hypothetical ideal patient at the end of a successful analysis. The SWAP Insight Scale scores were lowest for the patients at the beginning of analysis and highest for the hypothetical patients at the ideal end of analysis. Further, the correlations between the SWAP Insight Scale and Global Assessment of Functioning scores were not significant at the beginning of analysis and were significant at the end of analysis. The data provide support for the known groups and convergent validity of the SWAP Insight Scale.
Freud (1909/1955) hypothesized a conflict between love and hate in obsessive neurosis. To test th... more Freud (1909/1955) hypothesized a conflict between love and hate in obsessive neurosis. To test this relationship, we compared a Thematic Apperception Test-based measure of aggressive fantasies in college men who scored either high or low on the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory–Revised. 64 undergraduate men from beginning classes in psychology participated. Their mean age was 19.4 yr. ( SD = 1.7). 16 men with high scores had significantly higher scores on a TAT-based measure of aggressive fantasies toward parents, partners, and others than 15 men with low scores, which is consistent with Freud's hypothesis.
... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of... more ... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of emotional attachments in battered women and other relationships of intermittent abuse. Vic-timology: An International Journal, 6, 139-155. Edleson, JL, & Syers, M.(1990). ...
... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of... more ... shame detoxification in Wallace & Nosko, 2002). ... Traumatic bonding: The development of emotional attachments in battered women and other relationships of intermittent abuse. Vic-timology: An International Journal, 6, 139-155. Edleson, JL, & Syers, M.(1990). ...
CHILDBIRTH is an experience which is affected by prenatal variables [l-5] and is an experience wh... more CHILDBIRTH is an experience which is affected by prenatal variables [l-5] and is an experience which affects the subsequent development of the child [6] and perhaps the subsequent development of the family. Understanding the childbirth experience has been a slow process, perhaps inhibited by the practical problems of investigating an experience which extends over a lengthy period of hours and which is, in the United States, a private event which occurs in a hospital setting.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1207 S15327752jpa6002_14, Jun 10, 2010
We investigated whether Scale 2 (Depression [D]) and the Wiggins Content Scale of Depression (DEP... more We investigated whether Scale 2 (Depression [D]) and the Wiggins Content Scale of Depression (DEP) of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) have different clinical correlates when only one of these two scales is elevated. According, a group of patients who elevated DEP higher than Scale 2 (DEP > 2) were compared with a group of patients who elevated Scale 2 higher than DEP (2 > DEP). The patients with DEP > 2 were rated as being less severe than the patients with 2 > DEP on the following Brief Psychiatric Rating Scales: Somatic Concern (SOM), Emotional Withdrawal (WDRA), Depressive Mood (DEP), and Blunted Affect (AFF). The patients with DEP > 2 were rated as more severe on Excitement (EXC). The patients with DEP > 2 were more likely to receive the Axis I diagnoses of: bipolar disorder, manic, and alcohol abuse. Schizophrenia was equally probable for patients in the two groups. It appears that these two MMPI scales of depression have different clinical correlates when either one scale or the other is elevated.
Karliner, Westrich, Shedler, and Mayman (1996) developed the Early Memory Index (EMI) to assess m... more Karliner, Westrich, Shedler, and Mayman (1996) developed the Early Memory Index (EMI) to assess mental health, narrative coherence, and traumatic experiences in reports of early memories. We assessed the convergent validity of EMI scales with data from 103 women from an urban primary care clinic (Study 1) and data from 48 women and 24 men from a suburban primary care clinic (Study 2). Patients provided early memory narratives and completed self-report measures of psychopathology, trauma, and health care utilization. In both studies, lower scores on the Mental Health scale and higher scores on the Traumatic Experiences scale were related to higher scores on measures of psychopathology and childhood trauma. Less consistent associations were found between the Mental Health and Traumatic Experiences scores and measures of health care utilization. The Narrative Coherence scale showed inconsistent relationships across measures in both samples. In analyses assessing the overall fit between...
This study assessed the relationship between psychopathology with the Personality Assessment Scre... more This study assessed the relationship between psychopathology with the Personality Assessment Screener (PAS) and childhood physical and sexual abuse and adult physical and sexual partner violence in a primary care sample of 98 urban-dwelling African American women. Patients completed the PAS, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Conflict Tactics Scale. The PAS total score significantly correlated with all measures of childhood and adult abuse. Stepwise regression analyses revealed that PAS element scores of Suicidal Thinking and Hostile Control significantly predicted a history of childhood physical abuse; Suicidal Thinking, Hostile Control, and Acting Out significantly predicted a history of childhood sexual abuse; Suicidal Thinking, Negative Affect, and Alienation significantly predicted current adult partner physical violence; and Psychotic Features, Alcohol Problems, and Anger Control significantly predicted current adult sexual partner violence. The PAS appears to be a us...
Two studies of how parents use pronouns in describing their newborn infants are presented. Father... more Two studies of how parents use pronouns in describing their newborn infants are presented. Fathers more often than mothers used the neuter pronoun "it" in describing their new babies. Parents who used the neuter pronoun were more often multiparous, were more likely to have attended childbirth preparation classes, and did not differ from other parents in parenting behaviors or husband-wife communication patterns assessed six months after birth. The data suggest that pronominalization may be a linguistic component of the development of the parental role.
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