No: 9-10 / PSYCHOSIS OR ANTI-SOCIAL TENDENCIES? CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE RORSCHACH TESTING OF AGRESIVENESS IN CHILDHOOD

  • PSYCHOSIS OR ANTI-SOCIAL TENDENCIES? CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE RORSCHACH TESTING OF AGRESIVENESS IN CHILDHOOD

    Maria Abigail Souza, Rebeca Eugênia Castro
    Translated by: Tevfika Tunaboylu-İkiz
    Summary :

    From the research action developed with children from 8 to 12 that presented destructive aggressiveness in the school environment, the emergence of different psychic operations is observed, varying from the normal to the pathological, even more serious pathologies, of psychotic nature. The objective of this work is to present the differences among two boys in Rorschach (L.H. ,10 years and R.S., 11 years) whose initial school´s complaints were of physical aggressiveness and incapacity of accomplishing classroom activities. The psychological evaluation included the Rorschach Test and interviews with their carers and their teachers. The data analysis started with the comparison between their interviews and the quantitative and qualitative results of the two boys? Rorschach and afterwards the comparison with a group of 20 aggressive boys studied in a previous research using the same context. The two boys? Rorschach Testing results when compared to the aggressive boys? group showed lower values of R, G+, F+%, K+, H%, no. Ban, and higher values of A% and other contents. These results placed them in a more pathological operation than the one of most of the group. As to special phenomena, the two boys presented numerous shocks, refusals and answers indicating active, passive and potential aggressiveness, but L.H. presented arbitrary justifications, a difficulty of delimiting the perceptos and lingering silences, without managing to improve his performance in the test. What differentiated most the two boys was the attitude during the application of Rorschach: while R.S. had shown aggressiveness in his comments and in his answers, L.H. remained more reserved, suspicious and with difficulty in verbalizing. The psychological evaluation pointed out the first boy as a pre psychotic subject and the second as a subject with a tendency to have antisocial behaviors. Besides, we observed that these kind of psychic functioning demand different psychotherapeutic strategies.

    Keywords : Rorschach, agressiveness, children, psychosis, anti-social tendencies