Rorschach assessment of annihilation anxiety and ego functioning.

Benveniste, Paul S.; Papouchis, Nicholas; Allen, Rhiannon; Hurvich, Marvin

doi:10.1037//0736-9735.15.4.536

Psychoanalytic Psychology

1998

DOI: 10.1037//0736-9735.15.4.536

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Rorschach assessment of annihilation anxiety and ego functioning.

Paul S. Benveniste¹,

Nicholas Papouchis²,

Rhiannon Allen³

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Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation.

Farber¹,

Jackson²,

Tabin³

et al. 2007

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Self-starvation, bulimic behavior, and self-mutilation comprise a triad of associated self-harm syndromes that are potentially life threatening, with anorexia nervosa having the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. They are associated with trauma and are extremely resistant to treatment. These patients present a disturbing lack of anxiety about their own life-threatening behavior, yet are preoccupied with death and anxiety about annihilation. Because dissociation compartmentalizes and separates psychological and somatic aspects of traumatic experience (psychological and somatoform dissociation), it enables these patients to disavow the life-threatening nature of their behavior, which makes the dissociative processes the most destructive factor in this psychopathology. The self-harm symptoms are a presymbolic form of communication that must be decoded and confronted in treatment to make recovery possible. For many patients who starve, purge, or mutilate themselves, the body is speaking of death. They require a treatment that protects their safety, determines their personal construct of death, treats the dissociative pathology and sadomasochism, and builds signal anxiety and other ego functions, especially affect regulation.

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Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation.

Farber¹,

Jackson²,

Tabin³

et al. 2007

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Diagnostic utility of the Hurvich Experience Inventory/50.

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This article describes preliminary diagnostic validation of scores from the Hurvich Experience Inventory/50 (HEI/50), which was developed to measure individual variation in the frequency of consciously acknowledged annihilation anxiety in adults and adolescents and to predict the need for psychiatric services. Analyses of the responses of 1,246 university students, community adults, and clinic clients showed that the HEI/50 anxiety total (A) and critical 12 high (C12high) scores were associated with various clinical indices, and that the C12high score exhibited diagnostic utility equivalent to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Beck Depression Inventory-IA (BDI), and Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90R) for predicting clinical status. Sequential multiple regression analysis suggested that the HEI/50 A score predicts unique variance in overall psychological distress, and is better than the BDI and STAI for predicting such distress. The usefulness of the HEI/50 in assessing annihilation anxieties in students and future research directions is suggested.

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Rorschach assessment of annihilation anxiety and ego functioning.

Cited by 2 publications

References 45 publications

Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation.

Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation.

Diagnostic utility of the Hurvich Experience Inventory/50.

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