Early Recollections: Interpretive Method and Application,9780415952873

Early Recollections: Interpretive Method and Application

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ISBN13: 9780415952873
ISBN10: 0415952875
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-16
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

We cannot recollect the past without skewing it by our current perceptions. Our memories are not identical recreations of the past, but are stories shaped by our current perspectives of others, the world, and ourselves. The constructist approach and systematic development of early recollection theory in this text invites the reader to think and engage in problem-solving. The volume also offers a step-by step approach to the interpretation of early recollections. Filled with examples, this book offers a perspective not limited to application by Adelerian practitioners and useful to non-Adlerian clinicians (and others) seeking a new framework for assessing personality.

Author Biography

Harold H. Mosak is a Distinguished Service Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Introduction xv
What Are Early Recollections and What Can We Learn From Them?
1(20)
Choice and Life Style
3(3)
Life Style Projected Into ERs
6(2)
The Function of Memory
8(2)
ERs as a Projective Technique
10(1)
Practicality of Using ERs
11(3)
Adlerian Theory
14(5)
Summary
19(2)
Test Administration
21(12)
The Administration Procedure
22(4)
Challenges of Eliciting ERs
26(5)
Possible Problem #1
26(1)
Possible Problem #2
27(3)
Possible Problem #3
30(1)
Possible Problem #4
30(1)
Possible Problem #5
30(1)
Summary
31(2)
The Headline Method
33(20)
Headlines of ERs
34(5)
Our Summary
39(1)
The ERs of Tom
40(5)
Life Style of a Famous Person
45(6)
Summary
51(2)
The Typological Approach
53(32)
First Attempts
55(1)
Typologies
56(4)
The Getter
60(1)
The Controller
61(1)
The Driver
62(2)
The Person Who Must Be Right
64(1)
The Person Who Must Be Superior
65(2)
The Pleaser
67(1)
The ``Aginner''
68(1)
The Victim
69(1)
The Martyr
70(1)
The Baby
70(1)
The Inadequate Person
71(1)
The Confuser
72(1)
The Feeling Avoider
73(1)
The Excitement Seeker
74(1)
The Social Interest Type
75(1)
Basis-A and Mosak's Typologies
76(1)
Merits and Cautions
76(3)
Example of a Type in a Series of ERs
79(3)
Summary
82(3)
The Life Style Convictions Approach
85(14)
Series of ERs From One Person
92(5)
Summary
97(2)
Sequential Analysis
99(22)
A Walkthrough of Sequential Analysis
101(18)
Case 1
101(7)
Case 2
108(4)
Case 3
112(3)
Case 4
115(4)
Summary
119(2)
Sample Analyses
121(6)
Brief Review
121(2)
Early Recollections of Travis
123(4)
Details in ERs
127(22)
Recollections of Trivial Events
127(1)
Tactile Details
128(1)
Vocational Details
129(2)
Omitted Details
131(2)
Geographical, Location, and Positional Details
133(2)
Feeling Details
135(1)
Affect as Expression of a Value
136(1)
Absence of Affect as a Response
137(1)
Affective Detail as Revealing the Meaning of the Early Recollection
138(1)
Changing Affect in ERs
139(1)
The If-Then Contingency
139(2)
Most Vivid Details
141(1)
Color Details
142(1)
Olfactory Details
142(1)
Modifying Details
142(1)
Metaphor Details
143(3)
Summary
146(3)
ERs and Diagnosis
149(8)
Is Medical Nomenclature Appropriate for Psychological Issues?
150(2)
ERs and Functional Assessments
152(3)
Summary
155(2)
Client-Therapist Relationship
157(10)
Consistency in Behavior
158(1)
Case 1
158(4)
The Client's Life Style
161(1)
Predictions
161(1)
Outcome
162(1)
Case 2
162(3)
Predictions
165(1)
Outcome
165(1)
Summary
165(2)
ERs in Marital Therapy
167(24)
Development, Neurosis, and Marriage
168(1)
``You're Better, Our Marriage Is Worse!''
169(1)
Harmony and Conflicts of Personalities
170(3)
Therapy or Counseling
173(1)
Attraction and Conflict
174(1)
Sociological Considerations
175(1)
Psychoanalytic Views
176(1)
Adlerian Approaches
176(4)
A Case Example
180(1)
``Games Married Couples Play''
180(3)
Marital Life Style Matching
183(7)
Summary
190(1)
ERs and Vocation
191(12)
Life Style and Vocation
192(1)
Spoilt Son
192(2)
Incurable Burglar
194(1)
Research on ERs and Vocational Guidance
195(5)
Matching ERs and Work
200(2)
Summary
202(1)
Pre- and Postintervention ERs
203(20)
Preintervention ERs of a 70-Year-Old Man
204(7)
Summary of Preintervention ERs
211(1)
Pre- and Postintervention ERs Compared
212(4)
Prompted ERs from the Preintervention Set
216(5)
Summary of Postintervention ERs
221(1)
Summary
222(1)
Pre- and Postintervention ERs: Part II
223(18)
Preintervention ERs of a Woman
223(6)
Summary of the Preintervention ERs
229(1)
Pre- and Postintervention ERs Compared
230(3)
Prompted ERs from the Preintervention Set
233(6)
Summary of the Postintervention ERs
239(1)
Summary
239(2)
Common Response Themes
241(8)
ER Response Themes
241(6)
Summary
247(2)
Common Thematic Topics
249(6)
Common Thematic Topics in ERs
249(5)
Summary
254(1)
Reliability and Validity
255(12)
Reliability of ERs
256(2)
Validity of ERs
258(3)
Clinical Model
258(1)
Empirical Model
259(2)
Errors in Memory
261(4)
Variability of Responses
265(1)
Summary
265(2)
The Quantifiers
267(6)
The Quantifiers
267(4)
Summary
271(2)
The Freudians
273(6)
Summary
278(1)
Alfred Adler and the Adlerians
279(6)
Summary
284(1)
The Applied Group
285(6)
Summary
290(1)
The New Adlerians
291(6)
Dawn of a New Age
294(1)
Summary
295(2)
Other Methods of Gathering and Interpreting ERs
297(20)
Methods of Collection
297(6)
Drawing ERs
297(1)
ERs and Hypnosis
297(3)
Early Memory Test
300(2)
Tape-Recorded and Written Recollections
302(1)
Created Versus Actual Recollections
302(1)
The SALSA
302(1)
Methods of Interpretation
303(11)
An Example of Quantification Methods
303(1)
Langs's Manual: Scoring Manifest Content
304(3)
Ideographic Approach
307(1)
Manaster-Perryman Scoring Manual
308(1)
The Willhite Method
308(2)
Bruhn's Cognitive-Perceptual System
310(3)
The Adelphi Early Memory Index
313(1)
Summary
314(3)
Denouement
317(12)
Hidden Messages?
318(1)
Survival of the Fittest
318(1)
The Almighty Dollar
319(1)
Cut Out the Middleman!
320(1)
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
321(1)
ERs and Brief Therapy
322(1)
Soft Determinism and Personality Formation
322(1)
Symptoms as Socially Purposeful
323(2)
Future Research
325(4)
References 329(8)
Index 337

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