Using the Rorschach for exploring the concept of transitional space within the political context of the Middle East

Tibon, Shira; Handelzalts, Jonathan E.; Weinberger, Yifat

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“…Operationalizing the Concept of Transitional Space: The RFS The RFS (Tibon et al, 2005) was designed to assess adaptive use, creation, and preservation of potential or transitional space. The scale was intended to differentiate between possible forms of psychopathology that may occur when one pole of the reality-fantasy continuum collapses into the other.…”

Section: Alexithymia and The Rorschach Thematic Imagerymentioning

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Construct validation of the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale in alexithymia.

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Weinberger²,

Handelzalts³

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Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The study applies Winnicott's conceptualization of potential space to the alexithymia construct by using a new Rorschach index, the Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS). The scale uses variables derived from the Rorschach Comprehensive System (Exner, 2000, 2001) to detect different types of psychopathological manifestations conceptualized as forms of collapse of potential space. Following previous research, the present study further evaluates the construct validity of the RFS in a sample of 92 patients with inflammatory bowel disease, categorized on the basis of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) as alexithymic, indeterminate alexithymia, and nonalexithymic groups. As hypothesized, the RFS significantly correlated with the TAS-20, discriminated among the 3 groups, and showed incremental validity in detecting alexithymia over isolated Rorschach markers. The study supports the exploration of psychoanalytic ideas by empirical, statistically based methods.

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Section: Alexithymia and The Rorschach Thematic Imagerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Construct validation of the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale in alexithymia.

Tibon¹,

Weinberger²,

Handelzalts³

et al. 2005

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…Psychologically healthy participants, as defined by the RFS, would be expected to score on the scale around zero, whereas significantly lower and higher mean RFS scores would be expected in cases of reality collapse and fantasy collapse, respectively. Previous studies that used the scale in samples of both nonpatients and patients confirmed the hypothesized zero RFS-P score in nonpatients and validated the scale as detecting psychotic proneness (Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2002;Tibon et al, 2005). Nonetheless, because the scale is bipolar with either extreme assumed to represent psychopathological adaptation, the use of the mean alone may mask important results, particularly in patients with dissociative behaviors.…”

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“…This comment suggests using a new Rorschach index, the Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005). The RFS is similar to the EII-2 in that it is addressed at capturing impaired psychological manifestations by CS variables, but it differs from the theoretical perspective used to define these manifestations.…”

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The Ego Impairment Index and the Reality–Fantasy Scale: Comment on Viglione, Perry, and Meyer (2003)

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Porcelli

Weinberger

2005

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…Thus, psychodynamic concepts progressively have given rise to a number of measures derived from performance-based methods. The Ego Impairment Index (EII-2; Viglione et al 2003) and the Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS; Tibon et al 2005), based on the Rorschach Inkblot Method, or the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS; Westen 1991) based on the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), are some illustrations for these measures. Given these developments, the complaint that empirically validated psychodynamic tools are not used is certainly neither true nor relevant for personality assessment.…”

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Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

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2012

J Youth Adolescence

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Recent publications in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence present a variety of topics exploring adolescents' mental functioning in the twenty first century. Conceptually, many of the articles address the intriguing, though rarely explicit, question of developmental continuities and change from adolescence to adulthood. Such investigations, which are particularly prominent in articles that discuss personality dispositions such as impulsivity or lack of empathy and their relationship to emotionally disturbed or maladaptive interpersonal behaviors, examine interactional effects of these dispositions within the personality-context matrix. From a methodological perspective, however, the major tools used for assessing personality dispositions are self-report inventories while performance-based methods, previously defined as projective tests, are not used at all despite the wide range of empirical studies that provide support for their psychometric properties. This commentary suggests that applying a theoretically based, multi-method assessment procedure in empirical research would be most fruitful for any study aimed at exploring mental functioning in adolescents. As an example, I would use the Rorschach Inkblot Method, currently being internationally considered as the most frequently applied personality test for assessing adolescents. Implications for research, practice and policy decisionmaking are discussed.

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Using the Rorschach for exploring the concept of transitional space within the political context of the Middle East

Abstract: The paper presents an application of a new Rorschach index, the Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS)

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Construct validation of the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale in alexithymia.

Construct validation of the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale in alexithymia.

The Ego Impairment Index and the Reality–Fantasy Scale: Comment on Viglione, Perry, and Meyer (2003)

Invited Commentary: Applying Psychodynamic Developmental Assessment to Explore Mental Functioning in Adolescents

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