Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities

<p>This book provides a definitive empirical study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Drawing upon a decade of research with nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons the authors paint an extraordinary intrapsychic picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these troublesome patients.<br><br>Serving as both an educational tool and a reference text this book presents: <br>* Rorschach data on several different antisocial groups -- conduct disordered children and adolescents antisocial personality disordered adult males with and without schizophrenia antisocial adult females and male and female sexual homicide perpetrators; <br>* nomothetic (group) and idiographic (case study) data; <br>* data which have been analyzed and theoretically interpreted using both structural methods and psychoanalytic approaches which represent the cutting edge of Rorschach theory and practice; and<br>* a developmental approach in analyzing Rorschach data gathered from antisocial children adolescents and adults -- providing striking similarities. <br><br>This is the first Rorschach database of this type that has ever been published. As such it serves as a valuable reference text for Rorschach users -- providing a definitive empirical base theoretical integration and a focus on individuals who create severe problems for society.</p>