| Abstract: | Compared 15 adult children of alcoholics (ACAs) with 15 non-ACAs, using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) and 2 Rorschach measures of developmental object relational pathology and egocentricity. Higher levels of personality pathology and lower levels of object relational development were found in ACAs compared with non-ACAs, confirming the presence of personality disorders and characterological defensive adaptation. Findings are consistent with the picture of moderate characterological pathology etiologically related to developmentally based object relational deficits in ACAs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
