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It has been indicated, that PRP set out to pursue three main avenues of data study and analysis. The three—the clinical case study, the formal Prediction Study, and the (semi)quantitative studies—are now described briefly in turn.
The clinical case study is the time-honored method pioneered by Freud. It has flourished in the hands of its founding genius and of those who have come after him, and has provided a truly extraordinary range of insights into the structure of the mind, the organization of mental illness, the forces at work in the treatment situation, and the processes of change. It is the method of this book.
A full clinical case study was constructed for each of our 42 PRP patients. This was done as follows: All the material on each of the cases—the by now many hundreds of single-spaced pages that comprised the write-ups in the folios of the Initial Study, the Termination Study, and the Follow-Up Study of each case—was read and abstracted1 into one four-part document, the “Case Study.” This