Rorschachs of Women Who Commit Homicide

Kaser-Boyd, Nancy

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa6003_3

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“…On the other hand, it might also be possible that coping with the offence is actually more difficult for women than for men, which could explain the slightly increased external score for the female offenders compared to men. This explanation is in line with the results found in a study on women guilty of homicide [52]. The women in this study did not show capacity of internalising painful affects or a painful self-reflection, and they tended to externalise their affects.…”

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Violent Women, Blame Attribution, Crime, and Personality

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Background: The attribution of blame for criminal act has an impact, both on the way the offender must come to terms with the offence and on the risk of recidivism. Blame attribution has been found to be related to the type of crime and personality. Aims: This study examined the relationship of blame attribution and feelings of guilt in violent female offenders, according to factors related to crime, background and personality. Methods: The Gudjonsson Blame Attribution Inventory (BAI) and the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) were administered to 58 violent female offenders. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), Structured Clinical Interview II for DSM-IV (SCID II) and clinical interviews were used for assessment. Results: Lower scores of guilt feelings were found in women than has been reported for men. The feelings of guilt were higher in homicide than in other violent crimes, but lower in the cases where women had committed prior violent crimes. No differences were found between psychiatric patients and prisoners. The duration of hospitalisation and incarceration did not result in differences in blame attribution and guilt, but when the victims survived, guilt feelings seemed to increase with the passing of the time. External attribution was related to motives of crime, but traumatic experiences did not have a crucial impact upon blame attribution. The attribution of blame and the amount of guilt feelings were found to be related to personality. Women scoring high on psychopathy reported less guilt than women with low scores. The corresponding result was not obtained in the group of women with antisocial personality disorder, who, however, showed an unexpectedly low use of external attribution. Conclusion: The results suggest that it might be difficult for women to cope with the violent offence and that the characteristics of psychopathy seems to have a crucial impact on the guilt feelings and consequently on coping with the crime in female offenders.

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“…Similar constricted cognitive structures have been observed in Rorschach protocols of Vietnam veterans [48]and in women who killed their battering spouse [49]. It can be speculated that the common denominator of the above deficiencies in coping is a rigid approach and a lack of plasticity in dealing with novel situations.…”

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Suicide Risk and Coping Styles in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients

Amir

Kaplan²,

Efroni³

et al. 1999

Psychother Psychosom

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Background: Suicide and suicidal behavior have been found to be increased among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients. The present study examined suicide risk and Plutchik’s coping styles in PTSD patients. Method: 47 PTSD patients were compared with 42 patients with mixed non-PTSD anxiety disorders and 50 healthy control subjects, matched for age and gender, on a measure of suicide risk. Results: The PTSD patients scored significantly higher than the two control groups on the suicide risk measure. Furthermore, in the PTSD group, suicide risk was significantly negatively correlated with the coping mechanisms of mapping, minimization and replacement and positively correlated with the coping style of suppression. Furthermore, the coping styles significantly explained the variance of the suicide risk measure for all three groups. Conclusions: The cognitive map of PTSD patients highly resembles other populations with high suicide risk. Clinicians treating victims of traumatic events should focus on problem-solving therapies in order to help these patients deal less rigidly with everyday stresses and by this decrease the suicide risk.

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“…The results confirm some of the earlier findings on antisocial women (Gacono & Meloy, 1994) and women who, as a reaction to victimization, had committed homicide (Kaser-Boyd, 1993). The results reveal, as predicted, that a larger proportion of the offenders than the non-offenders displayed an inconsistent problem coping style.…”

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“…However, Wood, Krishnamurthy, and Archer (2003) found that the Full scale and Verbal IQs correlated negatively with Form%, but did not correlate with the number of Rorschach responses (R) or Afr. Significant positive relationship between intelligence and R was found by Wagner, Young, and Wagner (1992) as well as Kaser-Boyd (1993). In this later study no association between intelligence and Lambda was found.…”

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“…A D-minus score would emphasize a tendency to lose selfcontrol. Battered women who had committed homicide exhibited a Rorschach pattern similar to that of antisocial women (Kaser-Boyd, 1993). Furthermore, male offenders with antisocial and psychopathic personality disorders (Gacono & Meloy, 1994) and violent as well as non-violent male offenders (Coram, 1995) have shown a Rorschach pattern similar to that of women with antisocial personality disorder.…”

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A comparison of selected Rorschach variables of violent female offenders and female non‐offenders

Weizmann‐Henelius

Ilonen

Viemerö

et al. 2006

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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A national sample of incarcerated violent female offenders (N = 45) and a sample of female non-offenders (N = 30) were compared on nine selected Rorschach CS (Exner, 2003) variables and three of the aggression variables of Gacono and Meloy (1994). The results indicate that an avoidant and inconsistent coping style was more characteristic of the offenders than the non-offenders. The offenders were characterized by social immaturity and limited capacities to cope with stress as compared with the non-offenders. No significant differences were found between the two groups in handling intense emotions. Although the aggressive scores revealed no discrimination between the groups, significant correlations were found between the aggressive content score and childhood victimization. An inverse relation was found between the aggressive past score and the emotional intensity of the violent offense. The study indicates that the selected RCS variables related to adaptive resources for coping discriminate between violent offenders and non-offenders, but that the variables related to affective features need further examination.

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Rorschachs of Women Who Commit Homicide

Cited by 33 publications

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Violent Women, Blame Attribution, Crime, and Personality

Violent Women, Blame Attribution, Crime, and Personality

Suicide Risk and Coping Styles in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients

A comparison of selected Rorschach variables of violent female offenders and female non‐offenders

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