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Huprich Eastern Michigan University LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 2006 Mahwah, New Jersey London Material in this book from the DSM-IV and DSM-IV Text Revision is used by permission of the American Psychiatric Association. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2006 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 www.erlbaum.com 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 This page intentionally left blank 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 ix