Psychoanalysis: Operational Analysis and measurement of Constructs

P.B. Todd

Conference Proceeding: 01/2010; In proceeding of: Open Symposium, POPIG NSW, Giving the Shadows Form (with Jonathan Shedler PhD) November 13-14, 2010, At Sydney

Abstract

One of the historic criticisms of psychoanalytic explanatory theories has been that constructs have been regarded as inaccessible to operational analysis and measurement and therefore devoid of empirical meaning. This paper demonstrates that constructs such as unconscious ego-defences and affects can be operationally defined and measured and predictions derived from theory concerning behaviour and disease outcome empirically tested. Several examples of such construct research are discussed from the psychosomatic and neuropsychoanalytic fields.

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