Integrating Clinical and Empirical Perspectives on Personality: the Shedler–westen Assessment Procedure (swap)
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One of the greatest challenges facing psychology and psychiatry is the schism between science and practice. The schism is especially pronounced when it comes to understanding personality. For skilled clinical practitioners, personality assessment generally means clinical case formulation: understanding the patterns of thinking, feeling, fantasizing, desiring, fearing, coping, defending, attaching, relating, experiencing self and others, and so on, that make a person unique and (if he is in treatment) underlie his suffering. Understanding personality in this way requires skill. Sophisticated clinicians consider a range of information, attending not only to what patients say but also to how they say it, drawing inferences from patients’ accounts of their lives and relationships, from their manner of interacting with the clinician, and from their own emotional reactions INTEGRATING CLINICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY: THE SHEDLER–WESTEN ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE (SWAP)
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