tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post861487752874841121..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: GW Psychiatric Treatment: Status of Illness as of January 1995My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-66113323655051343802011-11-23T10:04:46.650-05:002011-11-23T10:04:46.650-05:00Tarter, R.E., et al. "Clinical and Perceptual...Tarter, R.E., et al. "Clinical and Perceptual Characteristics of Paranoids and Paranoid Schizophrenics") indicates that paranoids (297.10) and paranoid schizophrenics (295.30) have distinct MMPI profiles, which do not appear to match my MMPI profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&uid=1976-24208-001" rel="nofollow">http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&uid=1976-24208-001</a><br /><br />It is questionable whether the relative normality of paranoids renders them unemployable (absent a finding that they are a direct threat in the workplace).My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-63332742899660532002011-11-23T09:59:59.136-05:002011-11-23T09:59:59.136-05:00See Ganellen, R.J. "Attempting to Conceal Psy...See Ganellen, R.J. "Attempting to Conceal Psychological Disturbance: MMPI Defensive Response Sets and the Rorschach." Journal of Personality Assessment, 63(3): 423-437 (1994). The author asserts that a guarded, defensive response set is manifested on the Rorschach by (1) fewer than average responses, (2) a constricted response style, and (3) an attempt to appear conventional.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327752jpa6303_3#preview" rel="nofollow">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327752jpa6303_3#preview</a><br /><br />It is difficult to reconcile these criteria of defensiveness/mendacity with the GW test evaluator's express assertions, or admissions, that I was "enthusiastic and very self-disclosive" (p. 3), had a perceived need to "[give] as many responses as possible per card" on the Rorschach (p. 4), made attempts to impress with a "stellar performance" on the Rorschach (p. 4), with a marked tendency on the Wechsler test "to respond in an intentionally overly elaborate way in order to show off [my] verbal sophistication and complex thought processes" (p. 4) (thereby suggesting the unusual expansiveness of my test responses generally), and--significantly--I made no attempt to conceal a "disturbed" thinking style on the Rorschach (p. 5).My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-14849862748024843102011-11-23T09:54:22.005-05:002011-11-23T09:54:22.005-05:00August 19, 1993 [afternoon]: I meet with GW psych....August 19, 1993 [afternoon]: I meet with GW psych. department chairman, Dr. Jerry M. Wiener to discuss the letter of complaint that I plan to send to the D.C. Board of Medicine. (I thought that it was appropriate that I meet with a Board Certified Psychiatrist before sending the letter of complaint to the D.C. Board of Medicine, and I had first sought to meet with previous psychiatrist, Stanley R. Palombo, M.D. I learned, however, that Dr. Palombo would be away from his office until Monday August 23, 1993. It was upon learning that Dr. Palombo was unavailable that I arranged an appointment with Dr. Wiener). At my meeting with Dr. Wiener he advises that he has read the letter of complaint, a copy of which I submitted to him on August 17, 1993. He states that the letter is incontrovertible evidence of my paranoia, and that my paranoid preoccupations have crippled my life. He states that he declines to investigate the charges made in the letter of complaint to the D.C. Board of Medicine. Throughout the meeting, Dr. Wiener refers to the letter of complaint, copies of which I have forwarded to various parties, as symptomatic of severe psychopathology. Dr. Wiener refuses, however, to reduce to a writing his comments concerning my paranoid mental state that I could then submit to the U.S. Social Security Administration in connection with my disability claim; he reminds me that I had initially agreed that my meeting with him was in his capacity as Psychiatry Department Chairman and not as a psychiatrist conducting a consultation. We do not discuss Dr. Pitts or my current psychiatric treatment, per se, and Dr. Wiener makes no treatment recommendations, which is consistent with the agreed nature of the meeting.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com