A Rorschach Trauma Content Index and PCL-R Understanding of Female and Male Psychopaths.

Trauma histories are ubiquitous within offender populations. Prevalence rates for trauma related diagnoses range from 12-54% for females and 4-21% for males (Adams et al., 2017). Much of the psychopathy/trauma literature from the past 20 years addresses methodological issues that obfuscate their findings (Cunliffe et al., 2021b). In this study, the relationship between trauma and psychopathy is explored by comparing the Rorschach Trauma Content Index between female psychopaths (n = 115) and male psychopaths (n = 44). Rather than being linear this relationship appears to be comorbid. Trauma-related disorders do not negate the presence of psychopathy. Offenders, both psychopathic and non-psychopathic, can exhibit histories of trauma. Total TCI scores do not differentiate among these offenders related to their histories of trauma. Our findings are used to explore what the TCI may be measuring in this offender population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]