Rorschach Research and the Psychodiagnosis of Antisocial and Psychopathic Personalities

Gacono, Carl B.; Meloy, J. Reid

doi:10.1027/1192-5604.22.1.130

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“…Against the background of tension, there are often insufficiently assimilated and integrated aggressive impulses, easily activated by various irritating stimuli from the environment. Comparing these research results with the conclusions of Gacono and Meloy [ 106 ], similar results were obtained in the monitored traits (colour and chiaroscuro responses). This suggests the good validity of this projective test, especially when assessing the affective component.…”

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Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach

Macháčková

Dudík

Zelený

et al. 2021

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This paper evaluates the impact of the forest environment on aggressive manifestations in adolescents. A remedial educative programme was performed with 68 teenagers from institutions with substitute social care with diagnoses F 30.0 (affective disorders) and F 91.0 (family-related behavioural disorders), aged 12–16 years. Adolescents observed patterns of prosocial behaviour in forest animals (wolves, wild boars, deer, bees, ants, squirrels and birds), based on the fact that processes and interactions in nature are analogous to proceedings and bonds in human society. The methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative research. Projective tests (Rorschach Test, Hand Test, Thematic Apperception Test) were used as a diagnostic tool for aggressive manifestations before and after forest therapies based on Shinrin-yoku, wilderness therapy, observational learning and forest pedagogy. Probands underwent 16 therapies lasting for two hours each. The experimental intervention has a statistically significant effect on the decreased final values relating to psychopathology, irritability, restlessness, emotional instability, egocentrism, relativity, and negativism. Forest animals demonstrated to these adolescents ways of communication, cooperation, adaptability, and care for others, i.e., characteristics without which no community can work.

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Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach

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Dudík

Zelený

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“…Personality structure is commonly assessed be means of psychometric instruments, which include the Minnesota Multidimensional Personality Inventory (MMPI) (Paluchowski, 1984;Łuszczyńska-Cieślak & Cieślak, 1996) and the NEO PI-R Inventory (Siuta, 2006;McCrae & Costa, 2005); clinical methods (an interview, observation, or a clinical experiment; as well as projective techniques such as the Rorschach Inkblot Test (Stasiakiewicz, 2004;Czerederecka, 2006;Waszkiewicz & Zakrzewska-Wirkus, 2012;Shafer, Erdberg, & Meyer, 2007;Gacono & Meloy, 1997). There are obviously proponents and opponents of applying the Rorschach technique for measuring a variety of internal experiences.…”

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Application of the Rorschach test in psychological diagnosis of personality disorders

Izydorczyk

Gąska²

2016

Health Psychology Report

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Background The paper presents the authors’ own research, which points to the possibility of applying the Rorschach test in the clinical diagnosis of personality disorders. Participants and procedure The clinical research was conducted in the years 2010-2013 in the Neurosis Treatment Center and in the Mental Health Outpatient Clinic. The study population comprised individuals with a medical diagnosis of neurotic personality organization as well as patients with more severely disorganized personality structure. The research participants had never undergone psychological evaluation for personality disorders (for instance, they had never taken the Rorschach test), and therefore it seemed rather difficult to verify the accuracy of the medical diagnoses which they had received, concerning the level of personality destabilization. Eighty Polish individuals participated in the research. The study population comprised 38 males (47.50%) and 42 females (52.50%). The mean age of women was 30.40 (SD = 7.67). The men’s mean age was 35.10 (SD = 8.73). The examined females were somewhat younger than the male subjects. Methods: Rorschach test, clinical interview. Results The statistical procedures applied in the present study allowed us to conduct empirical examination of the indicators of the investigated variables constituting the major psychological criteria for describing psychological functioning of personality, and thus to identify the main characteristics of neurotic as well as borderline level of personality organization. Analysis of the data obtained as a result of this research allowed us to distinguish two significantly different clusters in the group of 80 examined individuals. Conclusions The results of the present investigation indicate that despite the fact that the examined individuals displayed symptoms of different medical diagnoses (F40 and F60), the subjects comprising cluster 1 exhibited a higher level of personality structure compared with the study participants belonging to cluster 2.

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MMPI‐2 based classification of forensic psychiatric outpatients: An exploratory cluster analytic study

Nieberding

Gacono²,

Pirie³

et al. 2003

J Clin Psychol

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and now the MMPI-2, are the most widely researched personality assessment tools in correctional and related forensic settings (MMPI; Hathaway & McKinley, 1940; MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989). Using the original MMPI, Megargee (1977a) and colleagues (Megargee & Bohn, 1977; Megargee & Dorhout, 1977) developed an extensive and meaningful classification system for correctional inmates. However, few studies, with the exception of Toch and Adams (1994) cluster analytic study of emotionally disturbed violent offenders, have explored possibilities of a statistically derived categorical classification paradigm within the growing population of forensic psychiatric patients awaiting discharge into the community (Bannatyne, 1996). The present exploratory study investigates the utility of a commonly employed and replicable cluster analytic method in establishing an MMPI-2-based categorical classification system within a substantial forensic psychiatric outpatient sample (N = 300). Here, we present results of a seven-cluster solution, augmented by contemporaneous Rorschach inkblot data utilizing Exner's Comprehensive System (Exner, 1991; Exner et al., 1995). Descriptive cluster characteristics are provided along with potential clinical correlates in an attempt to move closer to the goal of pairing informed assessment with effective treatment in this growing, but unique, population.

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Rorschach Research and the Psychodiagnosis of Antisocial and Psychopathic Personalities

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach

Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach

Application of the Rorschach test in psychological diagnosis of personality disorders

MMPI‐2 based classification of forensic psychiatric outpatients: An exploratory cluster analytic study

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