Projective Testing and Psychoanalysis. Selected Papers: By Roy Schafer, Ph.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1967. 229 pp.

This collection of papers published between 1954 and 1960 by Roy Schafer, clinical psychologist who is on the staff of the Department of University Health of Yale University and President of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, presents a cogent fusion of clinical and theoretical freudian psychoanalysis and fundamental concepts of psychodynamic test interpretation. The papers focus upon the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception tests and explicate the theoretical foundation and operational processes that guide the psychologist in his formulation of the patient's defensive and adaptive resources, his integrative status at various stages of treatment, the parameters of his psychodynamics, and prognostic probabilities. Of special interest to the psychoanalyst are the chapters on Psychological Test Evaluation of Personality Change During Intensive Psychotherapy, the Psychoanalytic Study of Retest Results, and Regression in the Service of the Ego. Incisive case illustrations round out these lucid and synthesized papers, as timely now as when they were written, and give the therapist a clearer understanding of what he can expect when he refers a patient for psychodiagnostic evaluation.