Abstract
Of the large number of diagnostic tools available to clinicians today, perhaps none has been so widely used yet remained so controversial as the Rorschach test. Since the publication of Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik in 1921, dozens of books and more than 5000 articles have been written on the test. Over the almost 60 years of its existence, five major systems of Rorschach administration, scoring, and interpretation have arisen. Each approach offers its own unique postulates, yet each unavoidably adds to the confusion about the uses and the philosophy of the test.
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- Organizational Activity
- Form Quality
- Projective Technique
- Free Association
- Comprehensive System
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Exner, J.E., Clark, B. (1978). The Rorschach. In: Wolman, B.B. (eds) Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2490-4_5
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