Inkblot projective procedures, such as the Rorschach were originally conceived for traditional applications by clinicians. Subsequently their use was extended to other populations, such as testing applicants for military service or roles in industry. Unfortunately, sometimes such extension disregarded basic standards of validity and reliability, resulting in flagrant abuses. As an extreme examp...

The focus of this study was to investigate the long-range stability of the defense style of intellectualization (assessed by ratings of Rorschach protocols), and its relation to an analytic field-independent cognitive style (assessed by scores on the Rod and Frame, RFT, test). The 28 male Ss had been administered the Rorschach and the RFT at age 14, 17, and 24 (4 of the sample was also tested a...

In this study first published in 1972, 218 relatives of 28 schizophrenic and a control group of 34 brain-damaged patients were interviewed and tested with the original Rorschach inkblot cards. In contrast to Rorschach surveys in the general population, the study revealed schizophrenia-like test results in approximately one quarter of the subjects, equally distributed among the relatives of schi...

Over a period of several years, repeat Rorschach testing was done with two groups of patients receiving outpatient psychotherapy, a long-term group (n = 88) engaged in intensive, dynamically oriented psychotherapy and a short-term group (n = 88) involved in behavioral or gestalt therapy. Rorschach protocols were obtained at the beginning of the treatment and on three subsequent occasions, 1 yea...

We analyzed the contemporary empirical and theoretical literature concerning the two predominant approaches for scoring formal thought disorder on the Rorschach, the Comprehensive System special scores, and the methodology of Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer (1946/1968). The psychoanalytic research related to selected special scores is reviewed, and some linkages to psychoanalytic developmental theo...

The chapter discusses the theoretical assumptions that responses to the Rorschach inkblots (a) reflect how people deal with decision-making and problem-solving tasks and (b) reveal underlying thoughts and feelings that are projected onto the external stimulus (the inkblot). In this regard regard, the chapter discusses four psychodynamic perspectives for interpreting Rorschach responses of adole...

In this study Rorschach data from a Romanian sample of 111 respondents was collected and analyzed in a first attempt to establish national norms. The protocols were collected in a 5-year period (2002-2006) by the author. Interrater reliability statistics are presented for a sample of 20 cases, along with scores for the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 1993). These results can be used ...

A Clinical Approach to Children's Rorschachs. By Florence Halpern, Ph.D. Grune and Stratton. $6.00. These three books are all of considerable interest to Rorschach workers and illustrate very nicely the different attitudes with which experts may regard the test, while at the same time the differences serve to highlight the large measurement of agreement now existing in the Rorschach field. None...

We replicated prior research on Rorschach and MMPI-2 convergent validity by testing 8 hypotheses in a new sample of patients. We also extended prior research by developing criteria to include more patients and by applying the same procedures to 2 self-report tests: the MMPI-2 and the MCMI-II. Results supported our hypotheses and paralleled the prior findings. Furthermore, 3 different tests for ...

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder generally regarded as a variant of autism. While it has been included in the ICD-10 and DSM-IV as a distinct diagnostic entity, it is still unclear to what extent it differs from high-functioning autism (HFA). Persons with HFA have been reported to show a variety of deficits of thought processes. Abnormalities such as poor reality tes...