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Personality in panic disorder with agoraphobia: a Rorschach study.

C de Ruiter1, L Cohen

  • 1Center for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University.

Journal of Personality Assessment
|October 1, 1992
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Patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDA) exhibit an avoidant processing style and restricted emotional lives, consistent with self psychology theories. Defenses against dependency needs were also observed in these patients.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychodynamic Psychology

Background:

  • Self psychology suggests panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDA) patients have deficits in regulating negative affect.
  • These deficits are theorized to be managed by defenses like avoidance and repression of dependency needs.
  • Such defenses may lead to a restricted emotional experience in PDA patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test self psychology hypotheses regarding personality features in panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDA).
  • To investigate avoidance, restricted affect, and reaction formation against dependency needs in PDA patients using the Rorschach Comprehensive System.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Rorschach Comprehensive System to assess personality features.
  • Analyzed data for indicators of avoidance (lambda [L]), restricted affect (weighted sum color [WSumC], affective ratio [Afr]), and reaction formation against dependency needs (food content [Fd]).

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Main Results:

  • Found evidence of a highly avoidant information-processing style (86% of protocols had lambda [L] > .99).
  • Observed a constricted affective life, indicated by low weighted sum color [WSumC] and low affective ratio [Afr].
  • Results supported the hypothesis of reaction formation against dependency needs (low food content [Fd]).

Conclusions:

  • Findings align with self psychology's view of PDA patients having deficits in affect regulation and employing specific defenses.
  • The study supports the link between PDA and avoidant personality disorder traits.
  • Results highlight the utility of the Rorschach Comprehensive System in understanding the personality structures of PDA patients.