The mangled butterfly: Rorschach results from 45 violent psychopaths

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 491-506

  Franks, Kent W ^a   Sreenivasan, Shoba ^b   Spray, Beverly J ^a   Kirkish, Patricia ^c  

^a Forest Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STATE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTROSPECTION; MALE; NARCISSISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY; RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CALIFORNIA; CRIME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRISONERS; RORSCHACH TEST; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349378282     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.866     Document Type: Article

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