title: Psychodiagnosis of personality structure: psychotic personality organization.
abstract: Recent developments in Rorschach psychology, including nomothetic approaches focused on scores, ratios, and indices and idiographic approaches focused on content emerging from psychoanalytic theory, offer the Rorschach clinician a rich and potent interpretive methodology. This article examines the structural diagnosis of personality organization with a focus on psychotic personality structure. Rorschach approaches to the differential diagnosis of psychotic personality organization are presented. The Rorschach is viewed as indispensible in the differential diagnosis of personality organization, especially in the so-called "borderline" cases.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Acklin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*