Reitske Meganck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reitske Meganck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reitske |
| FAMILY NAME | Meganck |
| SIGNATURE | MEGANCK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9052-0100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward meaningful networks
With the aim of personalized care, an idiographic framework and network-based diagnoses are gaining momentum in psychology. This strongly relies on intensive longitudinal monitoring using experience-sampling methods. However, the conceptualization, validity, and clinical utility of current idiographic approaches require further scrutiny. Personalized care cannot be founded on technological and statistical developments alone. Strikingly, current d…
Master narratives as imperatives
In this study, we explore the influence of culture on adolescent identity formation, using the recently postulated master narrative framework. Most identity research using the framework thus far has departed from specific, a priori defined master narratives and domains. However, considering the rapidly changing and globalized sociocultural landscape, it is vital to consider contemporary developments and investigate what master narratives guide an…
Impact of personality style changes on CBT and PDT treatment responses in major depression
This study examines the influence of depressive personality styles on treatment responses in patients with major depression receiving cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy. We assessed changes in personality styles, including dependency, self-criticism, sociotropy, and autonomy, and their association with treatment response. Both treatment modalities led to significant reductions in self-criticism and sociotropy scores. Depressi…
On the conceptual grounds of subjective rectification
This study aims to investigate the conceptual grounds on which subjective rectification and the interweaving of the therapeutic and epistemic demand rely, specifically the assumption that the subject is involved in their own suffering. This perspective presupposes a subject with a certain degree of freedom and choice. Drawing on Freud’s choice of neurosis, Lacan’s unsoundable decision of being and forced choice and Zupančič’s ideas on psychologic…
Agency via speech
Depressive personality traits and temperament and character personality traits in a clinical sample
Personality and psychopathology are highly relevant and easily relatable constructs. The current study investigated the relationships between dependency and self-criticism, sociotropy and autonomy depressive personality traits, and Cloninger's temperament and character personality traits postulated as vulnerability factors for depression, in relation to depressive and general psychopathology symptoms in a clinical sample of 100 patients diagnosed…
For one can always start something new
In this study, we explore the etymology and history of "agency," link it with relational psychoanalytic literature, and examine how it can be understood within Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and practice. Building on its history, we find that "agency" embodies a binary distinction between the person as an actor, on the one hand, and as a being who is subject to determining structures, on the other. This binary approach, however, limits the debate…
How questionnaires shape experienced symptoms. A qualitative case comparison study of questionnaire administration in psychotherapy research
Quantified symptom measurement by self-report questionnaires is part of the ‘gold standard’ of assessing psychotherapeutic efficacy. In this paper, we report a qualitative case comparison to explore how June and Amy, two patient-participants in a gold standard psychotherapy study, experienced the process of quantitative data collection. The study resembles cognitive interviewing studies conducted in the development of measures, yet advances them …
A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries
In this study, we aim to contribute to the field of critical health communication research by examining how notions of mental health and illness are discursively constructed in newspapers and magazines in six European countries and how these constructions relate to specific understandings of mental health literacy. Using the method of cluster-agon analysis, we identified four terminological clusters in our data, in which mental health/illness is …
Working through childhood trauma-related interpersonal patterns in psychodynamic treatment
We conclude that to adequately address interpersonal difficulties in therapy, it is fundamental to recognize dominant interpersonal patterns and to apprehend their dynamics within the broader context of the case. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
When quantitative measures become a qualitative storybook
In psychotherapy research, treatment efficacy is commonly studied by means of self-report questionnaires to gain quantitative data on symptom development. The data serve as input for statistical analyses up to the level of evidence-based treatment. We analyzed how a patient in a psychotherapy study experienced the translation of her story into quantitative data by combining a phenomenological qualitative analysis of her therapeutic narrative and …
Interactions between obsessional symptoms and interpersonal dynamics
Both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories stress the importance of interpersonal dynamics in treating neurotic symptoms. Associations between the symptomatic and interpersonal level were formally represented in the symptom specificity hypothesis (Blatt, 1974, 2004), which linked obsessional symptoms to an autonomous interpersonal stance. Findings from cross-sectional group studies on symptom specificity, however, do not converge, po…
Changing encounters with the other
Democratic Therapeutic Communities (TCs) are long-term group programs that address severely ingrained clinical populations. These psychodynamically informed social environments can facilitate improvement in people suffering from personality pathology. However, the TCs’ working principle is not well documented, which threatens its continued existence. To gain further insight into how TCs work, this study explores former TC residents’ perspectives …
A metasynthesis of published case studies through Lacan's l‐schema
Transference in perversion is characterized by specific problems such as a defiant and polemic attitude, erotic transference, projections, and aggression. Such transference poses particular problems in the treatment of perversion and might render analytical work with these patients impossible. The authors propose that Lacan's L-schema can contribute to separating productive from counterproductive aspects of transference as it distinguishes betwee…
Hysterical and Obsessional Transference Patterns
Hysterical and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Patterns
Anal and Oral Word Use in Relation to Dependency and Self-Criticism
The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth
The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth A Pilot Study of Depressed Patients’ Self-Preoccupation
Affective Processing and Affect Regulation
Reliability and Factor Structure in an Adolescent Sample of the Dutch 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in an adolescent sample (N = 406, ages 12 to 17). This is rarely done even though the TAS-20 is used in adolescent research. Five published factor models were tested. For good fitting models, a second-order model with alexithymia as a higher-order factor and metric invariance across sex and age groups was tested. Confirmatory factor analyses show…
Reconstruction and Validation of the Personal Style Inventory in a Flemish Clinical and Student Sample
The Personal Style Inventory-II (Robins, Ladd, Welkowitz, Blaney, Diaz, & Kutcher, 1994) was constructed to assess sociotropy and autonomy; two personality dimensions associated with increased susceptibility to depression. In the present study, the authors used a confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the fit of the theoretical model of the Personal Style Inventory-II in a heterogeneous clinical sample (N=266) and in a student sample (N=799); c…
What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks
The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire as a Measure of Psychoanalytic Constructs Reported to be Measured
This study presents an empirical test of Coyne, Thompson, and Whiffen's statement that the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire does not measure the psychoanalytic constructs it is supposed to measure. Convergence was evaluated between the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire's Dependency and Self-criticism scales and clinicians' ratings on hysterical/anaclitic and obsessional/ introjective personality styles in a sex-balanced sample of 56 Flemis…
Does the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale Measure Alexithymia? A Study of Natural Language Use
Construct validity of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was investigated by analyzing natural language use. It was hypothesized that the TAS-20 should be related to a lower use of emotion words and fewer references to social processes. 32 clinical interviews with mental health outpatients were analyzed with four categories of the computerized Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count dictionary: positive emotions, negative emotions, referenc…
What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks
The present study examined symptom-specificity in depression, testing the hypothesis that affective, cognitive, and somatic dimensions in depressive symptoms, as measured with the Beck Depression Inventory-II, cohere, respectively, with the use of affective-, cognitive-, and somatic-related words in natural language, as measured with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. Based on questionnaire and interview data from 32 mental health outpatients…
When quantitative measures become a qualitative storybook
In psychotherapy research, treatment efficacy is commonly studied by means of self-report questionnaires to gain quantitative data on symptom development. The data serve as input for statistical analyses up to the level of evidence-based treatment. We analyzed how a patient in a psychotherapy study experienced the translation of her story into quantitative data by combining a phenomenological qualitative analysis of her therapeutic narrative and …
A metasynthesis of published case studies through Lacan's l‐schema
Transference in perversion is characterized by specific problems such as a defiant and polemic attitude, erotic transference, projections, and aggression. Such transference poses particular problems in the treatment of perversion and might render analytical work with these patients impossible. The authors propose that Lacan's L-schema can contribute to separating productive from counterproductive aspects of transference as it distinguishes betwee…
Anal and Oral Word Use in Relation to Dependency and Self-Criticism
The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
In both clinical and nonclinical samples, the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire is scored with a program that computes factor scores by using means, standard deviations, and item-loadings of a student sample. The underlying assumption of the use of this program in clinical samples is that factor scores computed on the basis of the student factor solution are similar to factor scores computed on the basis of a clinical factor solution. Conseque…
Interpersonal profiles and neurotic symptoms
The idea that neurotic symptoms are determined by interpersonal characteristics is of central importance for psychoanalytic theory, diagnostics, and treatment. In the present paper, the hypotheses were tested that (1) in general, neurotic symptoms are associated with interpersonal problems and (2) more specific, that a hysterical and an obsessional interpersonal dimension underlie the field of neurotic symptoms and that both dimensions are associ…
Dependent and Self-Critical Depression
Anaclitic and Introjective Psychopathology and the Interpersonal Function of Perfectionism/Self-Criticism
Blatt (1974, 2004) put forward that the phenomenological field of psychopathology could be subdivied into an anaclitic and an introjective cluster. Each of these clusters is underlain by a specific predisposing personality style that entails vulnerability for specific ‘triggering’ stressors. The theory of Blatt refers strongly to the classical psychoanalytic theory on the hysterical and obsessional dimensions in psychopathology, and also converge…
What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks
The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire as a Measure of Psychoanalytic Constructs Reported to be Measured
This study presents an empirical test of Coyne, Thompson, and Whiffen's statement that the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire does not measure the psychoanalytic constructs it is supposed to measure. Convergence was evaluated between the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire's Dependency and Self-criticism scales and clinicians' ratings on hysterical/anaclitic and obsessional/ introjective personality styles in a sex-balanced sample of 56 Flemis…
Does the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale Measure Alexithymia? A Study of Natural Language Use
Construct validity of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was investigated by analyzing natural language use. It was hypothesized that the TAS-20 should be related to a lower use of emotion words and fewer references to social processes. 32 clinical interviews with mental health outpatients were analyzed with four categories of the computerized Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count dictionary: positive emotions, negative emotions, referenc…
What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks
The present study examined symptom-specificity in depression, testing the hypothesis that affective, cognitive, and somatic dimensions in depressive symptoms, as measured with the Beck Depression Inventory-II, cohere, respectively, with the use of affective-, cognitive-, and somatic-related words in natural language, as measured with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. Based on questionnaire and interview data from 32 mental health outpatients…
Reconstruction and Validation of the Personal Style Inventory in a Flemish Clinical and Student Sample
The Personal Style Inventory-II (Robins, Ladd, Welkowitz, Blaney, Diaz, & Kutcher, 1994) was constructed to assess sociotropy and autonomy; two personality dimensions associated with increased susceptibility to depression. In the present study, the authors used a confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the fit of the theoretical model of the Personal Style Inventory-II in a heterogeneous clinical sample (N=266) and in a student sample (N=799); c…
Reliability and Factor Structure in an Adolescent Sample of the Dutch 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in an adolescent sample (N = 406, ages 12 to 17). This is rarely done even though the TAS-20 is used in adolescent research. Five published factor models were tested. For good fitting models, a second-order model with alexithymia as a higher-order factor and metric invariance across sex and age groups was tested. Confirmatory factor analyses show…
Hysterical and Obsessional Transference Patterns
Hysterical and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Patterns
Anal and Oral Word Use in Relation to Dependency and Self-Criticism
The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth
The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth A Pilot Study of Depressed Patients’ Self-Preoccupation
Affective Processing and Affect Regulation
A metasynthesis of published case studies through Lacan's l‐schema
Transference in perversion is characterized by specific problems such as a defiant and polemic attitude, erotic transference, projections, and aggression. Such transference poses particular problems in the treatment of perversion and might render analytical work with these patients impossible. The authors propose that Lacan's L-schema can contribute to separating productive from counterproductive aspects of transference as it distinguishes betwee…
Changing encounters with the other
Democratic Therapeutic Communities (TCs) are long-term group programs that address severely ingrained clinical populations. These psychodynamically informed social environments can facilitate improvement in people suffering from personality pathology. However, the TCs’ working principle is not well documented, which threatens its continued existence. To gain further insight into how TCs work, this study explores former TC residents’ perspectives …
Interactions between obsessional symptoms and interpersonal dynamics
Both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories stress the importance of interpersonal dynamics in treating neurotic symptoms. Associations between the symptomatic and interpersonal level were formally represented in the symptom specificity hypothesis (Blatt, 1974, 2004), which linked obsessional symptoms to an autonomous interpersonal stance. Findings from cross-sectional group studies on symptom specificity, however, do not converge, po…
Working through childhood trauma-related interpersonal patterns in psychodynamic treatment
We conclude that to adequately address interpersonal difficulties in therapy, it is fundamental to recognize dominant interpersonal patterns and to apprehend their dynamics within the broader context of the case. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
When quantitative measures become a qualitative storybook
In psychotherapy research, treatment efficacy is commonly studied by means of self-report questionnaires to gain quantitative data on symptom development. The data serve as input for statistical analyses up to the level of evidence-based treatment. We analyzed how a patient in a psychotherapy study experienced the translation of her story into quantitative data by combining a phenomenological qualitative analysis of her therapeutic narrative and …
A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries
In this study, we aim to contribute to the field of critical health communication research by examining how notions of mental health and illness are discursively constructed in newspapers and magazines in six European countries and how these constructions relate to specific understandings of mental health literacy. Using the method of cluster-agon analysis, we identified four terminological clusters in our data, in which mental health/illness is …
How questionnaires shape experienced symptoms. A qualitative case comparison study of questionnaire administration in psychotherapy research
Quantified symptom measurement by self-report questionnaires is part of the ‘gold standard’ of assessing psychotherapeutic efficacy. In this paper, we report a qualitative case comparison to explore how June and Amy, two patient-participants in a gold standard psychotherapy study, experienced the process of quantitative data collection. The study resembles cognitive interviewing studies conducted in the development of measures, yet advances them …
For one can always start something new
In this study, we explore the etymology and history of "agency," link it with relational psychoanalytic literature, and examine how it can be understood within Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and practice. Building on its history, we find that "agency" embodies a binary distinction between the person as an actor, on the one hand, and as a being who is subject to determining structures, on the other. This binary approach, however, limits the debate…
Depressive personality traits and temperament and character personality traits in a clinical sample
Personality and psychopathology are highly relevant and easily relatable constructs. The current study investigated the relationships between dependency and self-criticism, sociotropy and autonomy depressive personality traits, and Cloninger's temperament and character personality traits postulated as vulnerability factors for depression, in relation to depressive and general psychopathology symptoms in a clinical sample of 100 patients diagnosed…
Impact of personality style changes on CBT and PDT treatment responses in major depression
This study examines the influence of depressive personality styles on treatment responses in patients with major depression receiving cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy. We assessed changes in personality styles, including dependency, self-criticism, sociotropy, and autonomy, and their association with treatment response. Both treatment modalities led to significant reductions in self-criticism and sociotropy scores. Depressi…
Psychology (29 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (13 works) · Psychotherapist (11 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)