Improving dependability in science: A critique on the psychometric qualities of the HiTOP psychosis superspectrum.

We reevaluated HiTOP's existing factor analytic evidence-base for a Psychosis (P) superspectrum as encompassing two psychosis-relevant subfactors ("spectra")-Thought Disorder (TD) and Detachment (D). We found that their data did not support P as a superspectrum with TD and D subfactors. Instead, TD contained both positive and negative symptoms of psychosis and emerged at the subfactor level.

The "Feeling of Movement": Notes on the Rorschach Human Movement Response.

Human movement responses (M) on the Rorschach have been traditionally viewed as lying neither completely in the inkblot (external reality) nor within the subject's mind (inner world). The authors contend that M is not reducible to the "body that I have" but to the "body that I am," which is a higher level organization of bottom-up and top-down brain networks, integrating body implicit awareness, psychological functioning, and social cognition. Two sources of evidence suggest the close relationship among M, psychological functions, and brain mechanisms.

From waiting room to mother's lap: parameters in testing a psychotic, school-phobic child.

In this article, I discuss the challenging experience of testing a child with severe separation anxiety and school refusal, which reached psychotic-level proportions. Unusual parameters are necessary to provide assessments with severely compromised children. In cases such as these, the goal should be to gather as much useful information as possible, paying particular attention to the conditions, which allow testing to take place.