ABSTRACT
The Extended Aggression scores were developed to quantify the aggressive Rorschach imagery produced by violent Antisocial Personality Disordered (ASPD; American Psychiatric Association, 1980) offenders. Despite their histories of real-world violence, these subjects produced few Aggressive Movement (AG; Exner, 1993) responses. Why didn’t violent children, adolescents, and adults produce more AG responses? Considering their expression of uncensored pleasurable affect when relating their aggressive acts during interviews, conscious censoring (Exner, 1993; Meloy, 1988) did not adequately explain the paucity of AG responses among sentenced adults. Why would they describe their violent acts with pride and bravado during an interview and subsequently censor AG on the Rorschach? Conscious censoring among the Conduct Disorder (CD) children and adolescents, who frequently produced sexual content, seemed an equally unlikely explanation (Gacono, 1997).
