@article{ref1,
title="Psychological assessment of an artist and impostor",
journal="Journal of personality assessment",
year="1990",
author="Lewis, C. N.",
volume="54",
number="3-4",
pages="656-670",
abstract="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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3891",
doi="10.1080/00223891.1990.9674027",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674027"
}