著者

斉藤 文夫

出版者

武庫川女子大学

雑誌

武庫川女子大学紀要. 人文・社会科学編 (ISSN:09163115)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, pp.75-83, 2002

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This is a case report of personality assessment of a juvenile serial arsonist (male, high-school student, 16 years of age, IQ=96) by the use of the Murray's Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Twelve cards of the TAT were administered and the responses were interpreted to indicate the following characteristics of his personality: obsessive and monomaniac tendency; belittled self-image; omnipotence phantasy and weakness of reality testing; oral aggression, primitive impulse and weakness of ego control. Some of these characteristics were also observed from his data of the Rorschach test. It was discussed that presumably such deviated personality characteristics were closely related to his serial anti-social behavior.