The Clinical Interaction with Special Reference to the Rorschach

Abstract

This book represents a systematic inquiry into the variables that must be understood before one person can begin to understand the behavior of another in any face-to-face relationship. The major contention of the author is that the clinical interaction shares many common variables with all other forms of interpersonal interaction. He further contends that the failure to seriously consider the implications of the interpersonal nature of the clinical interaction has obscured the similarities that exist among different clinical problems and has made evaluation of research extremely difficult. The first part of the book is concerned with those variables arising within the patient, the stimulus, and the psychologist himself that could affect the behavior of the patient within the interaction and bias the conclusions that the psychologist reaches on the basis of this behavior. While the relation of these many variables to the character of the interaction is by no means

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