ABSTRACT
Assessment of individuals with antisocial or psychopathic personalities presents a number of challenges, including concerns about malingering, deception, and other deviant response sets; poor insight; overt defensiveness; difficult interpersonal styles; and possibly a heightened risk for violence Because these individuals often are encountered in forensic or correctional settings, these psychological and interpersonal obstacles are likely to be magnified by situational variables (e. g. , high-stakes evaluation contexts, with obvious or subtle secondary gains; possible adversarial examinee-examiner dynamics). In these cases, assessment requires a reliance on multiple data sources, including not only a standard interview, but also an emphasis on behavioral observations, collateral records and interviews, and convergent psychological testing data. The Rorschach Inkblot Method may play a highly useful role within this integrative assessment approach.
