Table Of ContentRorschach Assessment
of the Personality Disorders
The LEA Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology
Irving B. Weiner, Editor
Bornstein/Masling (Eds.) • Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems
Calhoun/Tedeschi • Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth: A Clinician’s Guide
Dana (Ed.) • Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment
Eisen/Quas/Goodman (Eds.) • Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview
Exner (Ed.) • Issues and Methods in Rorschach Research
Frederick/McNeal • Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for
Ego-Strengthening
Gacono (Ed.) • The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy: A Practitioner’s Guide
Gacono/Meloy • The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic
Personalities
Ganellen • Integrating the Rorschach and the MMPI-2 in Personality Assessment
Goodman/Rudorfer/Maser (Eds.) • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contemporary
Issues in Treatment
Hall/Bernieri (Eds.) • Interpersonal Sensitivity: Theory and Measurement
Handler/Hilsenroth (Eds.) • Teaching and Learning Personality Assessment
Hy/Loevinger • Measuring Ego Development, Second Edition
Kelly • The Assessment of Object Relations Phenomena in Adolescents: TAT and
Rorschach Measures
Kelly • The Psychological Assessment of Abused and Traumatized Children
Kohnstamm/Halverson/Mervielde/Havill (Eds.) • Parental Descriptions of Child
Personality: Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five?
Loevinger (Ed.) • Technical Foundations for Measuring Ego Development: The
Washington University Sentence Completion Test
McCallum/Piper (Eds.) • Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding
Meloy/Acklin/Gacono/Murray/Peterson (Eds.) • Contemporary Rorschach
Interpretation
Needleman • Cognitive Case Conceptualization: A Guidebook for Practitioners
Nielsen/Johnson/Albert Ellis Institute • Counseling and Psychotherapy With
Religious Persons: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach
Nolen-Hoeksema/Larson • Coping With Loss
Rosowsky/Abrams/Zwieg (Eds.) • Personality Disorders in the Elderly: Emerging
Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment
Sarason/Pierce/Sarason (Eds.) • Cognitive Interference: Theories, Methods, and Findings
Silverstein • Self Psychology and Diagnostic Assessment: Identifying Selfobject
Functions Through Psychological Testing
Taylor (Ed.) • Anxiety Sensitivity: Theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of
Anxiety
Tedeschi/Park/Calhoun (Eds.) • Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Changes in the
Aftermath of Crisis
Van Hasselt/Hersen (Eds.) • Handbook of Psychological Treatment Protocols for
Children and Adolescents
Weiner • Principles of Rorschach Interpretation
Wong/Fry (Eds.) • The Human Quest for Meaning: A Handbook of Psychological
Research and Clinical Applications
Zillmer/Harrower/Ritzler/Archer • The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological
Investigation of Nazi War Criminals
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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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
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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
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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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