Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities

Taylor & Francis

The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic PersonalitiesAuthor(s): Carl B. Gacono, J. Reid Meloy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138989900, 978-1138989900\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nServing as both an educational tool and a reference text, this book presents: \n* 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; \n* nomothetic (group) and idiographic.