Some methodological comments to the assessment of hostility on the level of molar behaviour in the course of psychosomatic treatment of functional disorders.

Abstract

The objective assessment and evaluation of change have become very actual methodological problems in clinical psychology and psychopathology. Various approaches aiming at reducing the discrepancy between the dynamic reality and conceptualizing, and between the static systems of observation and evaluation of molar behaviour are presented. Further progress in this direction may be expected from making use of a more dynamic methodology combining basic dimensions into a multidimensional dynamic space in which molar changes of behaviour such as those appearing in the course of aggression and its treatment could be registered and evaluated.