title: Personality characteristics of women with alcohol addiction: a Rorschach study of women in an early treatment programme.
abstract: This study identifies personality characteristics in a group of Swedish women (N = 60) attending their first treatment for alcohol problems. The treatment programme specifically addressed women in an early phase of their drinking career, and was called "Early Treatment of Women with Alcohol Addiction" (EWA). Rorschach personality profiles of the 60 women differed significantly in almost all investigated aspects in a psychopathological direction from norms reported by Exner for a reference group of female non-patients. The findings are consistent with the assumption that, although the EWA women were socially well-functioning and fairly early in their drinking career, they nevertheless reveal serious underlying psychopathology. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Haver
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dahlgren
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012392:Rorschach Test; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013548:Sweden