Review of Disordered personalities and crime.
Reviews the book, Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Analysis of the History of Moral Insanity by David W. Jones (see record 2015-48027-000). The focus of this book is on the development in the United Kingdom, from the eighteenth century to the present. The book gives an engaging and informative picture of the development of psychiatry through interaction with the wider culture, an interaction grounded in the public interest in psychological processes. Both more optimistic and more pessimistic views of insanity have got social and cultural expression. This thought-provoking book is readable not only for those working i...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Discussion of special issue articles “A Rorschach case study: Multiple psychoanalytic models of interpretation”.
Psychoanalytic theory offers multiple ways of organizing clinical data. In this paper, I comment on the preceding papers and offer an integrative discussion of Rorschach test analyses from the perspectives of object relations, ego psychology, interpersonal psychology, self psychology, and attachment theory. Each theory approaches the case somewhat differently, highlights different data points, and focuses on different inferences. In the end, however, each separate analysis reaches a similar endpoint with respect to the identification of core themes as manifested on the Rorschach test. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attachment theory applied to Ms. B.’s Rorschach.
This manuscript addresses the case study of Ms. B. through the lens of attachment theory. Her Rorschach reveals her anxiously attached information. Her attachment anxiety contributes to her suicidal attempt, to problems in affect regulation, and to negative self-esteem. Ms. B. has problems in mentalization and low reality testing while being in emotionally charged situations. She needs mentalization-based psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rorschachiana)
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A self psychological analysis of Rorschach thematic content.
In this discussion of the case of Ms. B., I consider this patient’s Rorschach responses from the theoretical viewpoint of psychoanalytic self psychology (Kohut, 1971, 1996). Using thematic content and sequence analysis, I demonstrate how the self psychological concept of the forward edge (Tolpin, 2002) may indicate how a selfobject transference emerges as a representation of thwarted legitimate developmental strivings that have been driven underground. I attempt to illustrate how such unrecognized selfobject needs may be reactivated on the Rorschach and how they may be understood as fragile tendrils of remaining healthy ...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An interpersonal approach to Rorschach interpretation.
In response to Kleiger’s (this issue) unique invitation to interpret a Rorschach case study from multiple psychoanalytic perspectives, I was asked to present a Rorschach interpretation from Sullivan’s interpersonal psychodynamic theory (IPT) perspective. In reviewing the literature, I found no theoretical papers specifically addressing IPT Rorschach interpretation. As such this article will be an initial attempt to integrate the Rorschach with IPT. I will present a brief overview of some of Sullivan’s most relevant IPT concepts, suggest where to find them on the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS), and apply IPT Rors...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ego psychoanalytic Rorschach interpretation.
This article concerns the utility of ego psychoanalytic perspectives in Rorschach interpretation. Psychoanalytic ego psychology focuses on how people cope with events in their lives and how effectively they can meet challenges to their sense of well-being. The way people deal with experienced distress constitutes their defensive style and determines to a large extent what kind of person they are. Adequate defenses against anxiety promote comfortable and productive adjustment, whereas ineffective defenses typically cause adjustment difficulties and susceptibility to psychological disorders. In Rorschach assessment, the natu...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Rorschach interpretation: An object relations approach.
This article presents an object relations theory interpretation of the protocol of Ms. B. Object relations theory is defined and the concepts of potential space and the introjective–anaclitic dimension are highlighted. The author suggests that Ms. B.’s protocol manifests a dissociative collapse of potential space, an introjective orientation toward defenses and coping, and a borderline level of object representation. The Rorschach data for these interpretations are discussed and the implications for treatment are highlighted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rorschachiana)
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Rorschach case study: Multiple psychoanalytic models of interpretation.
Six experienced clinicians interpreted the Rorschach of Ms. B., an 18-year-old patient who had been referred for psychological testing following a severe suicide attempt. The clinicians each conducted a blind interpretation of Ms. B.’s Rorschach from six different psychoanalytic schools of thought, which included ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, interpersonal theory, the French psychoanalytic school, and attachment theory. In their interpretations of Ms. B.’s Rorschach, the clinicians organized their formulations according to the following set of questions: (1) How does your model aid in a diagnostic ...
Source: Rorschachiana - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Not so abnormal psychology.
Reviews the book, Not So Abnormal Psychology. A Pragmatic View of Mental Illness by Ronald B. Miller (see record 2015-00670-000). This book has a twofold aim. First, it provides undergraduate students with a theoretically grounded and historically based introduction to abnormal psychology. To that end the book contains chapters treating historical/political/ philosophical aspects of and theoretical models of abnormal psychology. It also contains chapters on different kinds of psychological suffering during childhood and later on in adult life. Second, it is intended as a critique of and argument against the predominance of...
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nygren, Marianne Source Type: research
From the “imperfect illness” to the possibility of developing good internal objects: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy of patients with borderline personality disorder with follow-up by the Rorschach.
This paper is about a psychoanalytic psychotherapy follow-up by the Rorschach Comprehensive System of Doralice, a 30-year-old, unemployed, single woman, with diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, recurrent, severe, with psychotic features (Axis-I); and Borderline Personality Disorder (Axis-II) in DSM IV. The Rorschach Comprehensive System was administered upon admission and also in five annual follow-ups. In this paper, the authors show the characteristics and the development of the dual therapeutic attachment that will be illustrated by the responses to the Rorschach cards II, III and VII, focusing mainly on the MOA sca...
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Luiza de Mattos Fiore, Maria; Lottenberg Semer, Norma; Yazigi, Latife Source Type: research
How to be conTENT with Rorschach CONtent.
Content analysis is a late and contentious addition to the Rorschach canon. The determinants have ruled. Hermann Rorschach was at best, ambivalent about content analysis, focusing on the perceptual aspects of the process. Rorschachers have been not been conTENT about CONtent. The literature on the pros and cons and the how-to of content analysis is reviewed chronologically, concluding with eight issues and objections that have left Rorschach practitioners malcontent with content. Hoping to help practitioners improve the analysis of Rorschach content, ten suggestions, often with examples, are offered, these “hints” affe...
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peterson, Charles A. Source Type: research
Dimensions of the Rorschach Comprehensive System: Parallel analysis and principal component analysis of a European adult nonpatient sample.
The objective of this study is to propose a preliminary comprehensive dimensional model of the Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS). Three European adult nonpatient samples of the RCS were combined (Belgium, France, and Finland, N = 695). Principal component analysis was performed on primary scoring categories. Distribution issues were addressed by rank order transformation and the problem of R by partial correlations. The number of Components was determined through Parallel Analysis and resampling techniques (bootstrap and permutation). Twelve Components eigenvalues differed significantly from chance level (p (Source: Rorschachiana)
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fontan, Patrick; Andronikof, Anne; Mattlar, Carl-Erik; Mormont, Christian Source Type: research
Issues about color, human movement, and number of responses in the Zulliger test.
This study aimed to verify the scope and limitations of the stimuli of indicators of Color (C), Human movement (M), and Response number (R) of the Zulliger test through a qualitative analysis of the stimuli present in the Zulliger and the Rorschach, comparisons in expressions of C, M, and R, and R relations with evaluative inconsistencies on Zulliger. Taking the Rorschach as a reference, the qualitative analysis indicated a variation from little equivalence up to an overrepresentativeness of Zulliger stimuli. The comparisons, made with a sample of 51 subjects tested with the Zulliger and Rorschach tests and divided into co...
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: de Villemor-Amaral, Anna Elisa; Pianowski, Giselle; de Francisco Carvalho, Lucas Source Type: research
Promoting diversity.
Introduces the articles that appear in this issue of Rorschachiana. Increasingly, our field experiences tensions between the need of strong empirical evidence and clinical experience and intuition. The pitfalls of this tension have been that unless you can work within an empiricist framework, it will be difficult to voice alternative views in the scientific community. It becomes therefore more challenging to publish work that does not fit the dominant discourse. Rorschachiana takes pride of being a journal that promotes diversity, does not shy away from welcoming differences in methodology, and invites authors to publish e...
Source: Rorschachiana - January 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nashat, Sadegh Source Type: research
Rorschach nomological network and resting-state large scale brain networks: Introducing a new research design.
Despite advances in neuroscience, the field of personality assessment has not yet taken full advantage of the progress in neuroimaging techniques. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is one of the most widely used neuroimaging techniques and allows the detection of brain processes and their anatomically detailed correspondences. In the last fifteen years, few studies have developed research designs using the Rorschach test in fMRI settings, analyzing the relationship between Rorschach variables and brain neural circuits. Although their findings were promising, some methodological issues related to fMRI research de...
Source: Rorschachiana - June 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cristofanelli, Stefania; Pignolo, Claudia; Ferro, Laura; Ando’, Agata; Zennaro, Alessandro Source Type: research
