James H. Kleiger is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a Fellow in the Society for Personality Assessment and Board Certified in Clinical and Personality Assessment Psychology. Kleiger has written Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach (1999) and was senior author of Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide (2015), both by Routledge.

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FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PART I UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA

Chapter 1: Psychotic phenomena: Toward a conceptual understanding of reality testing and disordered thinking

Chapter 2: Assessing disordered thinking and Psychotic Phenomena

PART II RORSCHACH ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA

Chapter 3: Herman Rorschach's experiment

Chapter 4: Contributions of Rapaport and Holt

Chapter 5: The Thought Disorder Index

Chapter 6: The Comprehensive System and Rorschach Performance Assessment System

Chapter 7: Alternative Rorschach approaches for assessing disordered thinking

Chapter 8: Integrated model of Rorschach signs of disordered thinking

PART III DIMENSIONS OF DISORDERED THINKING

Chapter 9: Disorganization: Problems in focusing, filtering, and language usage

Chapter 10: Illogicality: Problems in reasoning and logic

Chapter 11: Impoverishment in thinking and language

Chapter 12: Awareness of perceptual and reasoning errors

PART IV DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA ON THE RORSCHACH

Chapter 13: Primary psychoses and the Rorschach

Chapter 14: Secondary psychotic phenomena and the Rorschach

Chapter 15: Malingered psychosis and disordered thinking

Chapter 16: Rorschach indications of psychotic phenomena in children and adolescents

FINAL THOUGHTS: EMPIRICAL, CONCEPTUAL, AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

INDEX