ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a summary of the results of the research collaboration. The work is one of many testimonies to the unique contribution of Dr Robert Wallerstein to the field of Psychoanalytic Research. The interrelationships of the various scales are described in detail by DeWitt, Milbrath, and Wallerstein. The general lack of a theoretical consensus, in combination with difficulties due to varying levels of abstraction and to unclear relationships between constructs and observable behaviour, had impeded the development of any generally accepted measurement approach. The chapter describes the experience of the German Psychoanalytical Association using the Scales of Psychological Capacities as part of a large follow-up assessment of patients who completed psychoanalyses. It defines a "psychological capacity as an accessible psychological resource that contributes to the achievement of adaptive intrapsychic and interpersonal functioning".
