Comparing Committed Forensic Inpatients to Nonpatients Instructed to Feign Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report

Kiss, Andrea; Mihura, Joni L.; Meyer, Gregory J.; Pimentel, Ruam P. F. A.; Kletzka, Nicole Taylor

doi:10.1007/s12207-023-09473-5

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“…His critical contents were elevated, largely due to images of sex and aggression (Sx, SS = 138; AGM, SS = 121). Kiss et al (2022) found that respondents attempting to malinger insanity report images of blood, morbidity, damage, and aggression more so than sexual images. Only 2% of the malingerers’ critical contents were sex responses.…”

Section: Contemporary Mmpi-2 and Rorschach Scoring And Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critical contents—which includes sexual, bloody, anatomical, morbid, and aggressive images—is an R-PAS scale that is often elevated when a respondent attempts to fake psychosis or appear “crazy” (Kiss et al, 2022). Critical contents can also be elevated when a respondent attempts to shock the examiner, has trauma imagery intrusions, or engages in a type of thinking seen in severe personality disorders or psychosis (Meyer et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The last psychological evaluation of Charles Manson: Implications for personality, psychopathology, and ideology.

Roy¹,

Mihura²,

Friedman³

et al. 2023

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Mmpi-2 and Rorschach Scoring And Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The last psychological evaluation of Charles Manson: Implications for personality, psychopathology, and ideology.

Roy¹,

Mihura²,

Friedman³

et al. 2023

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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Clarifying Sound and Suspect Use of the Rorschach in Forensic Mental Health Evaluations: A Response to Areh et al. (2022)

Ruiter

Giromini

Meyer

et al. 2023

Psychol. Inj. and Law

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Areh et al. (Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 29:183–205, 2022) recently commented on what standards should be applied to determine whether a test is appropriate for psycholegal use and concluded that the Rorschach does not meet their proposed standards. Accordingly, they concluded that psychologists should not use it in legal contexts. However, Areh et al.’s (2022) claims are based on a significant misunderstanding of how the Rorschach task works, relative neglect of the last 20 years of Rorschach research, unrealistic psychometric standards for assessing the reliability and validity of a psychological assessment measure, and a single European legal case in which a forensic expert used the Rorschach inappropriately. Our article seeks to clarify and correct some of their errors and misleading assertions. First, we clarify how the Rorschach task works according to more recent and widely accepted conceptualizations. Then, we show that Areh et al.’s (2022) position that Rorschach task data do not meet acceptable validity standards, especially when compared to medical tests, is empirically untenable. Next, we provide a detailed and nuanced account of what the Rorschach has to offer as a performance-based assessment method for forensic evaluators and the legal system, with attention paid to the anecdotal legal case Areh et al. (2022) highlighted. Finally, we provide four reasons why the Rorschach can be a useful tool for forensic mental health assessments when using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS).

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Comparing Committed Forensic Inpatients to Nonpatients Instructed to Feign Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

The last psychological evaluation of Charles Manson: Implications for personality, psychopathology, and ideology.

The last psychological evaluation of Charles Manson: Implications for personality, psychopathology, and ideology.

Clarifying Sound and Suspect Use of the Rorschach in Forensic Mental Health Evaluations: A Response to Areh et al. (2022)

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