The Rorschach Ego Impairment Index in heterogeneous psychiatric patients.

There is a need for test measures of ego functioning that identify treatment needs and predict treatment response. Perry and Viglione's Rorschach Ego Impairment Index (EII; Perry & Viglione, 1991) is a composite measure assessing reality testing, thought process, defensive regulation, and object relations. It has been shown to correlate with Minnesota Multiphastic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) scales and subscales and other measures of psychosis in a schizophrenic sample and to predict antidepressant treatment of outcome in a depressed sample.

Low-level carbon-monoxide poisoning: inability of neuropsychological testing to identify patients who benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Introduction: Although major sequelae of carbon-monoxide (CO) poisoning and its treatment with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) are well-documented, a syndrome of low-level CO poisoning has received relatively little attention. Subtle symptoms of poor concentration, language difficulty, problems with calculations, and memory loss were noted after an acute exposure of 131 dormitory residents to low levels of CO. The CO Neuropsychological Screening Battery (CONSB), a series of tests reported by others as useful to identify victims of CO poisoning, was performed on a subset of 46 victims.

Rorschachs of women who commit homicide.

For a majority of the women who kill, the victim is a family member; the most frequent is a spouse, and the woman is very frequently a battered woman. Clinical reports on battered women suggest a set of psychological symptoms that develops out of spousal abuse (i.e.