Werner’s Developmental Thought in the Study of Adult Psychopathology

摘要: The developmental approaches to psychopathology and self-image reviewed in this article as well Zigler’s broad body of research on mental retardation owe a primary theoretical debt organismic theory (e.g., Werner, 1948; 1957; Werner & Kaplan, 1963). the formulations approach adult that unfolded over course more than 40 years demonstrate power organismic-developmental for understanding interrelating many major variables psychopathology. application has enabled generation testing hypotheses about premorbid social competence, symptomatology, diagnosis, paranoid-nonparanoid status schizophrenia, prognosis, outcome, self-images personality variables. This created data through which these diverse phenomena can be integrated understood relation each other. With respect other aspects behavior, framework allowed functioning people with knowledge without retardation.