Bridging Neuropsychology with Psychoanalytic Treatment Planning
The psychoanalytically-informed neuropsychologist can play an important role in supporting treatment planning for patients who are in the process of converting from psychoanalytic psychotherapy to psychoanalysis, at a treatment impasse in a psychoanalytically informed treatment, or suspected of having neurocognitive difficulties concurrent with psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Understanding the neurocognitive functions that help define perception of self and others, and which influence reality testing, executive functioning, attention, and memory represent examples of how traditional domains of a neuropsychological evaluation are bridged with ego functions, building on Heinz Hartmann’s discussion of autonomous ego functions in the 1930s, and the diagnostic testing strategy developed by David Rapaport, Merton Gill, and Roy Schafer in the 1940s. Interpretation of various neurocognitive domains influence patient adaptation both within and outside of treatment, and can play a critical role in providing clinical-psychodynamic language and recommendations to support treatment considerations. A case illustration demonstrates how a multi-method consultation conducted by a psychoanalyst employing both neuropsychological and personality tests and measures can inform psychoanalytic treatment planning for an adult patient diagnosed with a childhood neurological problem.
Presenter: Dr. Jed Yalof
Learning Objectives:
- Identify neurocognitive domains evaluated during neuropsychological assessment.
- Identify the relationship between neuropsychological assessment and evaluation of ego functions.
- Identify how personality testing adds to neuropsychological assessment and helps to formulate a psychoanalytic treatment approach.
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced
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Dr. Jed Yalof is Professor Emeritus at Immaculata University where he was chair of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Immaculata University, and Director of the Psy.D. program in Clinical Psychology from 1991-2021. He was also the Director of college counseling and testing services at Immaculata from 1984 to 1995. Dr. Yalof was the 2005 recipient of the University’s Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award and two teaching awards from the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst and serves as the neuropsychologist at the Austen Riggs Center. Board certified in clinical psychology, assessment psychology, school neuropsychology, and adult psychoanalysis, Dr. Yalof’s private practice is in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychological assessment, including neuropsychological and school neuropsychological evaluations of children and adolescents, and consultative evaluations for other psychologists. Dr. Yalof was the editor of the Society for Personality Assessment’s Exchange from 2003 to 2015 and received recognition as Distinguished Editor in 2015. He is also a past president of the Academic Division of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. His publications (authored and co-authored; articles and chapters) cover different areas: nonverbal learning disability, disorders of the right hemisphere, bipolar spectrum, psychotic disorders intake-referral process, teaching and learning personality assessment, teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy, and college counseling, diversity in assessment, ethics, clinical supervision and multicultural diversity, assessment competencies, enactments in psychological testing, TAT, and achievement motivation in athletes, in addition to various Rorschach-related publications. Dr. Yalof published the book Training and Teaching the Mental Health Professional (Aronson, 1996) Dr. Yalof is also co-author, with Drs. David Downing and Marc Lubin, of Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and co-editor with Dr. Anthony D. Bram of Psychoanalytic Assessment; Applications for Different Settings (Routledge, 2021), and Self-supervision: Psychodynamic Strategies with Dr. Marc Lubin (Aronson, 2023).
Bernstein, S. B. (2015) When the analytic patient has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 63, 213-245.
Bram, A.D., Yalof, J., & Gottschalk, K. (2018). Psychological testing and psychoanalysis: Fixable gap or great divide? Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health. Journal. 25, 166-172.
Leak, Sharon. (2017). Bringing a psychoanalytic mindset to neuropsychological testing: From parameters and testing the limits to the “something more.” Psychoanalytic Psychology.
Roth, B. (2014). Mutual attention and joint gaze as developmental forerunners of the therapeutic alliance. Psychoanalytic Review 101, 847-86936, 44-52. 10.1037/pap0000167.
Yalof, J. (2023). Cognitive and neuropsychological assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders. In J. H. Kleiger & I. B. Weiner (Eds.), Psychological assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders (pp. 171-182). American Psychological Association
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