The Object Relations Technique:
Assessing the Individual
by Martin A. Shaw,
Ph.D.
Together with the O.R.T.
Plates, this 232-page landmark publication provides the
psychologist with a unique and powerful method for personality
assessment and research. The method also serves to support and
enhance psychoanalytic psychotherapy, making treatment more truly
a technique — more structured, objective, and
even engaging.
Twelve years in preparation, this is the first comprehensive and
fully-operationalized (objectified) system for work with the O.R.T.
Clear flowcharts for all procedures,
cross-referencing to DSM-IV, and an extensive index make this
edition highly functional. Also presents a detailed case study (80
pages), including the final O.R.T. Spreadsheet assembled for the
analysis of the young woman patient.
As another main feature, one that has received
particular praise, the system embodies a complete set of procedures
for 'scoring' the famously hard-to-operationalize mechanisms of
defense.
This text is intended for an advanced-level
readership and for use in teaching, treatment, and research applications.
“In reintroducing the Technique with this
new edition, [Dr. Shaw] has updated and eloquently augmented its
original conceptual base, set forth a highly refined and
sophisticated system for analyzing its response data, and provided
a rationale that links scorable responses with broader personality
functioning.”
— Paul M. Lerner, Ed.D.
The author has utilized
the O.R.T. in his private practice in New York for over 35 years,
specializing in treatment with adolescent males and consulting to
private secondary schools.
Read more from Dr.
James S. Grotstein and Dr. Paul M.
Lerner.
232 pages, cloth hardcover, acid free. Printed
in USA.
ISBN: 978-0-9753942-0-5
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