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The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities The LEA Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology Irving B. Weiner, Editor Gacono & Meloy • The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities Carl B. Gacono Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas University of California, San Francisco J. Reid Meloy Forensic Mental Health Division, San Diego County University of California, San Diego Copyright © 1994, by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 365 Broadway Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642 This edition published 2012 by Routledge Routledge Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group 711 Third Avenue 27 Church Road New York, NY 10017 Hove East Sussex BN3 2FA Cover design by Kate Dusza. Cover art used with permission of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation/van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Library of Congress CataJoging-in-Publication Data Gacono, Carl B. The Rorschach assessment of aggressive and psychopathic personalities / Carl B. Gacono, J. Reid Meloy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-8058-0980-5 1. Rorschach Test. 2. Aggressiveness (Psychology) 3. Antisocial personality disorders. I. Gacono, Carl B. II. Meloy, J. Reid. III. Title. [DNLM: 1. Rorschach Test. 2. Aggression—psychology. 3. Antisocial Personality Disorder—psychology. WM 145 G122r 1994] RC473.R6G33 1994 155.2'32—<ic20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 94-11478 CIP Dedicated to the work and memory of Robert Lindner, PhD This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix xi Foreword by Philip Erdberg 1 1 Introduction 10 2 The Child Antisocial Pattern 45 3 The Adolescent Antisocial Pattern 93 4 The Antisocial Female 141 5 The Antisocial and Psychopathic Male 187 6 The Antisocial Schizophrenic Male 234 7 The Reflection Response 259 8 The Aggression Response 279 9 Sexual Homicide 312 10 Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Psychopath vii víii CONTENTS Appendix A: The Rorschach Test and the Diagnosis of 329 Psychopathic Personality by Robert Lindner 348 Appendix B: 100 Reflection Responses from 48 Subjects 363 References 383 Author Index 391 Subject Index Acknowledgments Many people have contributed their time and energy to help us produce this book. We have acknowledged each of them throughout the book as his or her individual contribution was felt. There are two individuals, moreover, whose kindness, generosity, and effort permeate this entire project, and without whom it would not have been completed—Phil Erdberg, PhD, and Marilyn Clarke. Our deepest gratitude to you both. The views expressed in this book are solely ours and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Universities of California at San Diego and San Francisco, or San Diego County Department of Health Services. ix
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