TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Psychological assessment of an artist and impostor
JO  - Journal of personality assessment
A1  - Lewis, C. N.
SP  - 656
EP  - 670
VL  - 54
IS  - 3-4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674027
ID  - ref1
ER  -