ABSTRACT
The Scales are the only quantitative instrument constructed by considering mainly psychoanalytic concepts. At the same time, by using a manifest, descriptive level, the Scales offer a bridge to other. An example of the excellent diagnostic capacity of the Scales distinguishes patients with integrated psychic functioning from those who are suffering from severe splittings or depersonalizations. In this chapter, the authors aim to apply the Scales in their study instead of other instruments of psychotherapy research for the several reasons. These reasons are elevance for psychoanalytic process and outcome studies, closeness to clinical practice, consideration of the pluralism of psychoanalysis and a sophisticated combination of conceptual and empirical research. The Scales could probably also be applied to clinical studies in a fruitful way—perhaps even in psychoanalytic supervision or training sensitizing the analysts for scotomization in their clinical perceptions and missing information in the clinical material.
