The Developmental Profile: its use in establishing indications for psychoanalytic treatment.

The Developmental Profile offers a description of the degree to which an adult has developed adaptive behavioral functions appropriate to his or her age and the extent to which his or her functioning is determined by "early," now maladaptive, patterns. After examining the structure, the application, and the psychometric evaluation of the Developmental Profile, the authors describe how this profile can be used to support the process of selecting a psychoanalytic treatment.