The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment Book

Preface   Carl B. Gacono   F. Barton Evans     XI
Acknowledgments     XXI
Contributors     XXIII
About the Editors     XXV
Scientific and Legal Foundations
Essential Issues in the Forensic Use of the Rorschach   Carl B. Gacono   F. Barton Evans   Donald J. Viglione     3
An Overview of Rorschach Psychometrics for Forensic Practice   Donald J. Viglione   Greg J. Meyer     21
Admissibility of the Rorschach   Joseph T. McCann   F. Barton Evans     55
The Authority of the Rorschach: An Update   J. Reid Meloy     79
Rorschach Assessment of Malingering and Defensive Response Sets   Ronald J. Ganellen     89
Presenting and Defending Rorschach Testimony   Irving B. Weiner     121
Forensic Applications
The Use of the Rorschach Inkblot Method in Trial Competency Evauations   B. Thomas Gray   Marvin W. Acklin     141
The Rorschach Test and Forensic Psychological Evaluation: Psychosis and the Insanity Defense   Marvin W. Acklin     157
Dangerousness Risk Assessment   B. Thomas Gray   J. Reid Meloy   Michael T. Jumes     175
Death Penalty and Mitigation   Nancy Kaser-Boyd     195
Use of the Rorschach in Forensic Treatment Planning   Carl B. Gacono   Michael T. Jumes   B. Thomas Gray     211
The Rorschach in Child Custody and Parenting Plan Evaluations: A New Conceptualization   F. Barton Evans   Benjamin M. Schutz     233
Rorschach Assessment of Psychological Trauma   Nancy Kaser-Boyd   F. Barton Evans     255
Rorschach Assessment in Tort and Employment Litigation   Bruce L. Smith     279
The Rorschach in Fitness for Duty Evaluations   James F. Gormally     301
Forensic Reference Groups
The Rorschach and Antisocial Personality Disorder   Carl B. Gacono   Lynne A. Gacono   F. Barton Evans     323
A Rorschach Understanding of Antisocial and Psychopathic Women   Ted B. Cunliffe   Carl B. Gacono     361
A Rorschach Understanding of Psychopaths, Sexual Homicide Perpetrators, and Nonviolent Pedophiles   Carl B. Gacono   J. Reid Meloy   Michael R. Bridges     379
Inmates in Prison Psychiatric Treatment: A Multimethod Description   Myla H. Young   Philip S. Erdberg   Jerald Justice     403
Some Considerations for the Rorschach Assessment of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients    Lynne A. Gacono   Carl B. Gacono     421
Child Custody Litigants: Rorschach Data From a Large Sample   Jacqueline Singer   Carl F. Hoppe   S. Margaret Lee   Nancy W. Olesen   Marjorie G. Walters     445
Special Topics
Battered Woman Syndrome: Assessment-Based Expert Testimony   Nancy Kaser-Boyd     467
The Rorschach and Immigration Evaluations   F. Barton Evans     489
The Use of the Rorschach in Professional Fitness to Practice Evaluations   Scott C. Stacey   Peter Graham   George I. Athey     505
The Use of the Rorschach in Police Psychology: Some Preliminary Thoughts   Peter A. Weiss   William U. Weiss   Carl B. Gacono     527
The Rorschach Assessment of Aggression: The Rorschach Extended Aggression Scores   Carl B. Gacono   Lynne A. Gacono   J. Reid Meloy   Matthew R. Baity     543
Multimethod Assessment as a Forensic Standard   Philip S. Erdberg     561
Three Critiques of "What's Wrong With the Rorschach?"   Hale Martin   Carl B. Gacono   F. Barton Evans   J. Reid Meloy     567
Author Index     579
Subject Index     597