Roy Schafer

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Roy Schafer is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology and General Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy Schafer has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Clinical Psychology, 12 papers in Applied Psychology and 9 papers in General Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roy Schafer's work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (46 papers), Psychological Testing and Assessment (12 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (9 papers). Roy Schafer is often cited by papers focused on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (46 papers), Psychological Testing and Assessment (12 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (9 papers). Roy Schafer collaborates with scholars based in United States. Roy Schafer's co-authors include Merton M. Gill, David Rapaport, Robert R. Holt, Howard M. Spiro, Brian T. Welch, Gardner Murphy, Isidor Chein, Harold M. Proshansky, Joseph Sandler and John Bowlby and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Psychosomatic Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Roy Schafer

80 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Diagnostic psychological testing

1968 569 citations Roy Schafer et al. profile →
A New Language for Psychoanalysis.

1978 503 citations Roy Schafer et al. profile →
Aspects of internalization

1968 465 citations Roy Schafer Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew) profile →
Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing

1954 354 citations Roy Schafer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roy Schafer United States	22	2.3k	668	614	572	479	90	3.6k
Robert R. Holt United States	25	1.1k 0.5×	471 0.7×	525 0.9×	306 0.5×	184 0.4×	89	2.3k
Joseph Sandler United Kingdom	29	2.3k 1.0×	633 0.9×	160 0.3×	489 0.9×	317 0.7×	122	3.2k
Paul L. Wachtel United States	27	1.8k 0.8×	847 1.3×	192 0.3×	410 0.7×	251 0.5×	111	2.7k
Monique Cournut‐Janin	9	4.4k 1.9×	1.2k 1.9×	201 0.3×	871 1.5×	770 1.6×	12	5.8k
Heinz Kohut United States	18	5.0k 2.2×	1.7k 2.5×	265 0.4×	744 1.3×	824 1.7×	52	6.8k
Robert D. Stolorow United States	28	3.3k 1.5×	900 1.3×	130 0.2×	716 1.3×	693 1.4×	175	4.1k
Margaret S. Mahler United States	21	2.3k 1.0×	810 1.2×	139 0.2×	203 0.4×	285 0.6×	43	3.6k
Irving B. Weiner United States	27	2.1k 0.9×	725 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	137 0.2×	99 0.2×	98	3.0k
Stanley B. Messer United States	26	1.6k 0.7×	674 1.0×	209 0.3×	244 0.4×	118 0.2×	96	2.5k
Frank M. Lachmann United States	27	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	93 0.2×	342 0.6×	218 0.5×	92	3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roy Schafer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roy Schafer

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Schafer, Roy. (2006). My Life in Testing. Journal of Personality Assessment. 86(3). 235–241. 2 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (2005). Conflict: Conceptualization, Practice, Problems. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 74(1). 47–63. 2 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (2005). Listening in Psychoanalysis. Narrative. 13(3). 271–280. 9 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (2002). Defenses against Goodness. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 71(1). 5–19. 4 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1999). Interpreting sex.. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 16(4). 502–513. 12 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1999). Recentering psychoanalysis: From Heinz Hartmann to the contemporary British Kleinians.. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 16(3). 339–354. 8 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1997). Die zeitgenössischen Kleinianer. Psyche. 51(4). 338–357. 2 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1982). The relevance of the 'here and now' transference interpretation to the reconstruction of early development.. PubMed. 63(1). 77–82. 26 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1980). Narrative Actions In Psychoanalysis. Clark Digital Commons (Clark University). 42 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy, et al.. (1977). Psychoanalytic Methodology in Helene Deutsch's The Psychology Of Women. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 46(2). 287–318. 1 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1974). Problems in Freud's Psychology of Women. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 22(3). 459–485. 61 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1973). A Psychoanalytic View of Emotion. Philosophical Studies. 22. 157–167. 1 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1972). Internalization: Process or Fantasy?. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 27(1). 411–436. 32 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1972). [The psychoanalytic view of reality. I].. PubMed. 26(11). 881–73. 3 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1970). Requirements for a critique of the theory of catharsis.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 35(1, Pt.1). 13–17. 9 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1968). Aspects of internalization. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 465 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schafer, Roy. (1968). On the Theoretical and Technical Conceptualization of Activity and Passivity. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 37(2). 173–198. 18 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1967). Projective testing and psychoanalysis : selected papers. 5 indexed citations

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Spiro, Howard M., et al.. (1957). Duodenal Ulcer in One of Identical Twins. Psychosomatic Medicine. 19(3). 221–227. 13 indexed citations

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Schafer, Roy. (1956). Review of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS).. Journal of Consulting Psychology. 20(2). 157–159. 1 indexed citations

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