O.R.T. Manual

 

“The Object Relations Technique: Assessing the Individual”

  by Martin A. Shaw, Ph.D.

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The first comprehensive, fully-operationalized system for work with the O.R.T.

 

Together with the O.R.T. Plates, this 232-page landmark publication provides the psychologist with a unique and powerful method for personality assessment and research: The Object Relations Technique. The method also serves to support and enhance psychoanalytic psychotherapy, making treatment more truly a technique — more structured, objective, and even engaging.

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“[The method] seems to offer the patient a sense of participant experience with the therapist lacking in regular psychotherapy and in psychoanalysis.”

— James S. Grotstein, M.D. (more…)

Clear flowcharts for all procedures, cross-referencing to DSM-IV, and an extensive index make this edition highly functional. The book also presents a detailed case study (80 pages), including the final O.R.T. Spreadsheet assembled for the analysis of the young woman patient.

 

A feature which received particular praise is a complete set of procedures for ‘scoring’ the famously hard-to-operationalize mechanisms of defense.

 

“In reintroducing the Technique with this new edition, [Dr. Shaw] has updated and eloquently augmented its original conceptual base, set forth a highly refined and sophisticated system for analyzing its response data, and provided a rationale that links scorable responses with broader personality functioning.”

— Paul M. Lerner, Ed.D. (more…)

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This text is intended for an advanced-level readership and for use in teaching, treatment, and research applications.

 

The author, Martin A. Shaw, Ph.D., utilized the O.R.T. in his private practice in New York for over 35 years, specializing in treatment with adolescent males and consulting to private secondary schools.

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232 pages, cloth hardcover, acid free. Printed in USA.
 

ISBN 978-0-9753942-0-5