Sampling Inner Experience in Disturbed Affect

by Russell T. Hurlburt

Overview

Following up on his groundbreaking 1990 work Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience, Dr. Hurlburt delineates the development of his descriptive sampling method across numerous case studies of depressed, anxious, bulimic, and borderline personalities. Though controversial, the method effectively demonstrates that an ‘introspective' technique can provide compelling, vivid descriptions of patients, as well as make distinctions between diagnostic groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306443770
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/1993
Series:	Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Method.- 2. A Comment to Suspend the Introspection Controversy: Introspecting Subjects Did Agree About “Imageless Thought”.- I. From Hypomania to Depression.- 3. A Slightly Hypomanic Student.- Normal Affect.- 4. A Medical Student with a Period of Dysphoria.- 5. A Graduate Student with Periods of Depression.- 6. A Depressed Resident of a Halfway House.- 7. Inner Experience from Hypomania to Depression.- II. Bulimia.- 8. A Bulimic Operating-Room Nurse.- 9. A Bulimic Junior High School Teacher.- 10. Inner Experience in Bulimia.- III. Anxiety.- 11. A Biology Student with Panic Attacks.- 12. A Graduate Student with Test Anxiety.- 13. Inner Experience in Anxiety.- IV. Borderline Personality.- 14. A Bank Teller with No Figure/Ground Phenomena in Perception.- V. Postscript.- 15. Discussion.- References.

Editorial Reviews

A sequel to Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience (Plenum, 1990) that further describes the author's method of examining inner experience. In this volume, he turns attention to the thinking processes of individuals with affective disorders (depression, bulimia, anxiety, and borderline personality). He demonstrates that the inner experience of these individuals is similar, following patterns that are typical for each group. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews