| Psychological assessment of an artist and impostor. | |
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PMID: 2348348 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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A Rorschach record and a narrative poem are examined to determine how imagination expresses the psychological trauma of being exposed as an impostor. The subject had been trained as a medical corpsman and deceived people under the grandiose fantasy of being a doctor. The role of the impostor physician is seen as an imaginative identity that was designed with an adaptive purpose. A Jungian analysis of his suicide attempt and the Rorschach suggest that the impostor role was a masculine compensatory fantasy that served as a counterforce to negative maternal imagery, linked to death, that is present in his imagination. |
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Authors:
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C N Lewis |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Case Reports; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of personality assessment Volume: 54 ISSN: 0022-3891 ISO Abbreviation: J Pers Assess Publication Date: 1990 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1990-07-11 Completed Date: 1990-07-11 Revised Date: 2008-11-21 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 1260201 Medline TA: J Pers Assess Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 656-70 Citation Subset: IM |
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Adaptation, Psychological Creativeness* Fantasy Fraud Humans Jungian Theory* Life Change Events Male Middle Aged Personality Development Poetry as Topic* Psychoanalytic Theory* Psychotherapy* Rorschach Test* Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology* Suicide, Attempted / psychology |
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