Books in the Personality and Clinical Psychology series

Brings together trends in 'the human search for meaning' converging from various fields, and examines the process of meaning seeking.

This book is a comprehensive, balanced, up to date guide for all professionals involved in forensic interviewing who need to thread their way through current controversies about the nature of memory.

Aims to bring together clinical scoring systems for thematic apperceptive techniques (TATs), presented in research summaries along with practice stories and available scoring manuals. This title provides the materials needed for learning and using the useful available clinical systems.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text presents a study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Research involved nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons, with the authors painting a picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these patients.

Underscores the contribution the Rorschach makes to forensic practice. This book offers a systematic approach to personality assessment when presenting use of the Rorschach in specific forensic contexts. It covers fundamental elements for preparing informed court testimony. It is intended for psychologists in forensic practice.

The Rorschach inkblot method (RIM) has been a theme of controversy for years, largely based on the merits and failings perceived about one of its scoring methods, Exner's Comprehensive System (CS). In the conflict the two became confused as one. In response, Bornstein (psychology, Gettysburg College), Masling (psychology emeritus, State U, of New Y

Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths towards the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation. The editors set the s

This book provides a definitive empirical study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Drawing upon a decade of research with nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons, the authors paint an extraordinary intrapsychic picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these troublesome patients.Serving as both an educational tool and a reference text, this book presents: * Rorschach data on several different antisocial groups -- conduct disordered children and adolescents, antisocial personality disordered adult males with and without schizophrenia, antisocial adult females, and male and female sexual homicide perpetrators; * nomothetic (group) and idiographic (case study) data; * data which have been analyzed and theoretically interpreted using both structural methods and psychoanalytic approaches which represent the cutting edge of Rorschach theory and practice; and* a developmental approach in analyzing Rorschach data gathered from antisocial children, adolescents, and adults -- providing striking similarities. This is the first Rorschach database of this type that has ever been published. As such, it serves as a valuable reference text for Rorschach users -- providing a definitive empirical base, theoretical integration, and a focus on individuals who create severe problems for society.

The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment underscores the unique contribution the Rorschach makes to forensic practice. All of the chapters include the expertise of a licensed practicing forensic psychologist, and offer a systematic approach to personality assessment in presenting use of the Rorschach in specific forensic contexts.

The Human Quest for Meaning represents a bold new vision for the future of meaning-oriented research and applications. No one seeking to truly understand the human condition should be without it.