ABSTRACT
Does a person seem to have stable affiliations and self-esteem, or disturbances in identity and relationships? An observer’s placement of an individual along this range is an estimate of the subject’s level of personality functioning. Such inferences about self-organization and attachment attitudes are important to clinicians because, as a continuing aspect of case formulation, the results are likely to lead to an apt selection of treatment techniques that, in the present phase of change, are most likely to foster personality growth.
