The Rorschach in Practice

Abstract

During the past 40 years, the ink blots have become a popular investigative tool of those who would amplify clinical study by projective tests. In the forward of this book, the author, an analytically oriented child psychotherapist, is described as the outstanding British exponent of the Rorschach technique. With one slim exception, it is the only book on the subject to emerge from Britain, where it was first published in 1959. It fails to add anything to the extensive material previously published here by such notables as Klopfer, Beck, Piotrowski, and Schafer, among others. However, it constitutes a satisfactory, well-condensed summation of the Rorschach method. Part 1 consists of seven chapters devoted to the technique of presentation; collection, classification, and analysis of data; and differentiation of psychograms according to various clinical conditions. Part 2 contains a more detailed analysis of individual records, with particular reference to positive features in a