Rorschach Assessment of the Personality Disorders (Lea Series in Personality and Clinical

496 Pages·2005·9.34 MB·English

by  Steven K. Huprich

Rorschach Assessment
of the Personality Disorders
The LEA Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology
Irving B. Weiner, Editor
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Rorschach Assessment
of the Personality Disorders
Edited by
Steven K. Huprich
Eastern Michigan University
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2006 Mahwah, New Jersey London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rorschach assessment of the personality disorders / edited by Steven
K. Huprich.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-4786-3 (h.: alk. paper)
1. Rorschach Test. 2. Personality disorders. I. Huprich, Steven Ken,
1966–
RC474.R6R67 2005
155.2'842—dc22 2204056255
CIP
ISBN 1-4106-1564-2 Master e-book ISBN
Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
I: INTRODUCTORY ISSUES
1 Understanding Personality Disorders 3
Thomas A. Widiger
2 The Advantages of Assessing Personality Disorders 27
With the Rorschach
Steven K. Huprich and Ronald J. Ganellen
II: CLUSTER A PERSONALITY DISORDERS
3 Rorschach Assessment of Paranoid Personality Disorder 57
Nancy Kaser-Boyd
4 Rorschach Assessment of Schizoid Personality Disorder 85
James H. Kleiger and Steven K. Huprich
5 Rorschach Assessment of Schizotypal Personality Disorder 113
Dana Deardeuff Foley
v
vi CONTENTS
III: CLUSTER B PERSONALITY DISORDERS
6 Rorschach Assessment of Antisocial Personality Disorder 139
and Psychopathy
James L. Loving and Alan J. Lee
7 Rorschach Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder 171
Joni L. Mihura
8 Rorschach Assessment of Histrionic Personality Disorder 205
Mark A. Blais and Matthew R. Baity
9 Rorschach Assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder 223
Leonard Handler and Mark J. Hilsenroth
IV: CLUSTER C PERSONALITY DISORDERS
10 Rorschach Assessment of Avoidant Personality Disorder 265
Ronald J. Ganellen
11 Rorschach Assessment of Dependent Personality Disorder 289
Robert F. Bornstein
12 Rorschach Assessment of Obsessive–Compulsive 311
Personality Disorder
Robert B. Schneider
V: OTHER PERSONALITY DISORDERS
13 Rorschach Assessment of Passive–Aggressive Personality 345
Disorder
Barry Ritzler and Galit Gerevitz-Stern
14 Rorschach Assessment of Depressive Personality Disorder 371
Steven K. Huprich
CONTENTS vii
VI: PERSONALITY DISORDERS,
PSYCHOANALYTIC SCIENCE, AND THE RORSCHACH
15 Rorschach Assessment of Object Relations: 397
The Personality Disorders
Paul M. Lerner
16 Rorschach Assessment of Personality Disorders: 423
Applied Clinical Science and Psychoanalytic Theory
Marvin W. Acklin, Susan H. S. Li, and James Tyson
Author Index 445
Subject Index 459
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List of Contributors
Marvin W. Acklin, PhD, ABPP
Matthew R. Baity, PhD
Mark A. Blais, PsyD
Robert F. Bornstein, PhD
Dana Deardeuff Foley, PhD
Ronald J. Ganellen, PhD
Galit Gerevitz-Stern, MS
Leonard Handler, PhD
Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD
Steven K. Huprich, PhD
Nancy Kaser-Boyd, PhD
James H. Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP
Alan J. Lee, PsyD
Paul M. Lerner, EdD
Susan H. S. Li, MS
James L. Loving, PsyD
Joni L. Mihura, PhD
Barry Ritzler, PhD
Robert B. Schneider, PsyD
James Tyson, MS
Thomas A. Widiger, PhD
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