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A process analysis of Bender Gestalt Test performance in childhood emotional disorder: A single-case study

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This study involves an analysis of the Bender Gestalt Test performance of a young, severely disturbed boy emphasizing the origins of and processes mediating the emergence of deviant responses. Deviant responses are considered to reflect a ‘conflict’ between primitive motor impulses and an emergent, visually-mediated organization of the designs, corresponding to the several stages of sensory-motor adaptation. The manner of the ‘resolution’ of visuo-motor conflict may prefigure later ‘dispositional’ trends significantly embedded within aspects of childhood emotional disorder. Finally, analogy is drawn between specific aspects of performance and the boy's behavioral organization.

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    Leonard Cobrinik Ph.D.

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Cobrinik, L. A process analysis of Bender Gestalt Test performance in childhood emotional disorder: A single-case study. Child Psych Hum Dev 17, 242–256 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706449

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