ABSTRACT
The ten patients presented in this book were referred to the author for psychological evaluation and each of them subsequently was seen by him in individual psychotherapy. The cases, mostly personality disorders, are felt to be representative of the problems encountered by the practitioner. Cases were selected on the basis of diagnostic representation and available data—psychological reports and psychotherapy notes both made by the author, who then evaluated the interrelationship between testing and therapy. The success of the case and the ideal quality of the report were not considerations for inclusion. In fact, the preponderant number of referrals were primarily for diagnostic evaluation, and the reports were not geared towards prognosis in psychotherapy. The advantage of such case selection is that it offers an opportunity to determine generally the relatedness of diagnostic reports to psychotherapy. If cases had been selected because they represented either ideal reports or model therapy, the generality of the results would have been seriously impaired.
