Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-mp689 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T21:59:00.669Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rorschach Validation. I: A Rationale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. D. Keehn
J. D. Keehn*
Affiliation:
London University Postgraduate Scholar at Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The Rorschach ink-blot test is so well known amongst present-day psychologists that any attempt to describe its composition and the aims and ambitions of its protagonists would be presumptuous. However, the underlying assumptions involved in the use of the test are neither so widely understood nor so universally accepted. It is for this reason that there have been so many and so various attempts to establish the validity of the Rorschach.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 98 , Issue 413 , October 1952 , pp. 697 - 706
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adcock, C. J., “A Factorial Approach to Rorschach Interpretation,” J. Gen. Psychol., 1951, 44, 261.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ainsworth, M. D., “ Some Problems of Validation of Projective Techniques,” Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 1951, 24, 151.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Allport, G. W., and Cantrill, H., “ Judging Personality from the Voice,” J. Soc. Psychol., 1934. 5, 37.Google Scholar
Idem and Vernon, P. E., Studies in Expressive Movement, 1933. New York : The Macmillan Co.Google Scholar
Altus, W. D., and Thompson, G. M., “ The Rorschach as a Measure of Intelligence,” J. Consult. Psychol., 1949, 13, 341.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ash, P., “ The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnoses,” J. Abnorm. and Soc. Psychol., 1949, 44, 272.Google Scholar
Baker, L. M., and Harris, J. S., “ The Validation of Rorschach Test Results against Laboratory Behavior,” J. Clin. Psychol., 1949. 5, 161.Google Scholar
Bell, J. E., Projective Techniques, 1948. New York : Longmans, Green & Co.Google Scholar
Bellak, L., “ The Concept of Projection,” Psychiatry, 1944. 7, 353.Google Scholar
Benjamin, J. D., and Ebaugh, F. G., “ The Diagnostic Validity of the Rorschach Test,” Amer. J. Psychiat., 1938,94, 1163.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Benton, A. L., “ The Experimental Validation of the Rorschach Test,” Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 1950, 23, 45.Google Scholar
Binet, A., Les révélations de l'ésriture d'après un control scientifique, 1906. Paris : Félix Alcan.Google Scholar
Brussel, J. A., and Hitch, K. S., “ The Rorschach Method and its Uses in Military Psychiatry,” Psychiat. Quart., 1942, 16, 3.Google Scholar
Cantril, H., and Rand, H. A., “ An Additional Study of the Determination of Personal Interests by Psychological and Graphological Methods,” Charac. and Person., 1934, 3, 72.Google Scholar
Cox, S. M., “ A Factorial Study of the Rorschach Responses of Normal and Maladjusted Boys,” J. Genet. Psychol., 1951, 79, 95.Google Scholar
Cronbach, L. J., “ Statistical Methods Applied to Rorschach Scores : a Review,” Psychol. Bull., 1949, 46, 393.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eichler, R. M., “ Experimental Stress and Alleged Rorschach Indices of Anxiety,” J. Abnorm. and Soc. Psychol., 1951, 46, 344.Google Scholar
Eysenck, H. J., “ Neuroticism and Handwriting,” ibid., 1948, 43, 94.Google Scholar
Idem , “Personality Tests : 1944–1949 ” (ed. Fleming, G. W. T. H.), Recent Progress in Psychiatry, 1950, 2.Google Scholar
Garfield, S. I., “ The Rorschach Test in Clinical Diagnosis,” J. Clin. Psychol., 3, 1947, 375.Google Scholar
Hertz, M. R., “ The Rorschach Ink-Blot Test : Historical Summary,” Psychol. Bull., 1935, 32, 33.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Idem , “ Validity of the Rorschach Method,” Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 1941, 11, 512.Google Scholar
Idem , “ Rorschach : Twenty Years After,” Psychol. Bull., 1942, 39, 529.Google Scholar
Idem , “ The Rorschach Method : Science or Mystery,” J. Consult. Psychol., 1943, 7, 67.Google Scholar
Idem and Rubenstein, B. B., “ A Comparison of Three ‘ Blind ’ Rorschach Analyses,” Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 1939, 9, 295.Google Scholar
Holtzman, W. H., “ Validation Studies of the Rorschach Test : Shyness and Gregariousness in the Normal Superior Adult,” J. Clin. Psychol., 1950, 6, 343.Google Scholar
Hsi, ∗∗∗ E. H., “ The Rorschach Responses and Factor Analysis,” J. Gen. Psychol., 1947, 37, 129.Google Scholar
Hughes, R. M., “ A Factor Analysis of Rorschach Diagnostic Signs,” ibid., 1950, 43, 85.Google Scholar
Hunter, M., “ The Practical Value of the Rorschach Test in a Psychological Clinic,” Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 1939, 9, 287.Google Scholar
Kelly, E. L., and Fiske, D. W., “ The Prediction of Success in the V.A. Training Programme in Clinical Psychology,” Amer. Psychol., 1950, 5, 395.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Krugman, J. I., “A Clinical Validation of the Rorschach with Problem Children,” Rorschach Res. Exch., 1942, 6, 61.Google Scholar
Lane, B., “ A Validation Test of the Rorschach Movement Interpretation,” Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 1948, 18, 292.Google Scholar
McFarlane, J. W., “ Problems of Validation Inherent in Projective Methods,” ibid., 1942. 12, 405.Google Scholar
Meyer, B. T., “ An Investigation of Color Shock in the Rorschach Test,” J. Clin. Psychol., 1951, 7, 367.Google Scholar
Miale, F. R., Clapp, H., and Kaplan, A. H., “ Clinical Validation of a Rorschach Interpretation,” Rorschach Res. Exch., 1938, 2, 153.Google Scholar
Michael, J. C., and Buhler, C., “ Experiences with Personality Testing in a Neuropsychiatric Department of a Public General Hospital,” Dis. nerv. Sys., 1945, 6, 205.Google Scholar
Munroe, R., “ Inspection Technique,” Rorschach Res. Exch., 1941, 5, 166.Google Scholar
Idem , “ An Experiment in Large Scale Testing by a Modification of the Rorschach Method,” J. Psychol., 1942, 13, 229.Google Scholar
Idem , “ Use of the Rorschach in College Counseling,” J. Consult. Psychol., 1943, 7, 89.Google Scholar
Piotrowski, Z. A., “ The Reliability of Rorschach's Erlebnistypus,” J. Abnorm. and Soc. Psychol., 1937, 32, 439.Google Scholar
Idem , “ Blind Analysis of a Case of Compulsion Neurosis,” Rorschach Res. Exch., 1937–1938, 2, 89.Google Scholar
Idem , in discussion of paper by Benjamin and Ebaugh, Amer. J. Psychiat., 1938, 94, 1176.Google Scholar
Idem , “The Rorschach Method as a Prognostic Aid in the Insulin Shock Treatment of Schizophrenics,” Psychiat. Quart., 1941, 15, 807.Google Scholar
Rorschach, H., and Oberholzer, E., “ The Application of the Interpretation of Form to Psychoanalysis,” J. new. ment. Dis., 1924, 60, 225.Google Scholar
Rosenzweig, S., “ Outline of a Co-operative Project for Validating the Rorschach Test,” Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 1935, 5, 121.Google Scholar
Ross, W. D., “ Rorschach Interpretations and Clinical Diagnosis,” J. Proj. Tech., 1950, 14, 5.Google Scholar
Sargent, H., “ Projective Methods : their Origin, Theory and Application in Personality Research,” Psychol. Bull., 1945, 42, 257.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schachtel, E. G., Review: “ The Rorschach Technique by Bruno Klopfer,” Psychiatry, 1942, 5, 604.Google Scholar
Sen, A., “A Factorial Study of the Rorschach Test,” Brit. J. Psychol., (Stat. Sect.), 1950, 3, 21.Google Scholar
Troup, E., “A Comparative Study by Means of the Rorschach Method of Personality Development in 20 Pairs of Identical Twins,” Genet. Psychol. Monog., 1938, 20, 461.Google Scholar
Vernon, P. E., “ Some Characteristics of a Good Judge of Personality,” J. Soc. Psychol., 1933. 4, 42.Google Scholar
Idem , “Can the Total Personality be Studied Objectively?” Charac. and Person., 1935a, 4, 1.Google Scholar
Idem , “The Significance of the Rorschach Test,” Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 1935 b, 15, 199.Google Scholar
Idem , “The Matching Method Applied to Investigations of Personality,” Psychol. Bull., 1936, 33, 149.Google Scholar
Williams, M., “An Experimental Study of Intellectual Control under Stress and Associated Rorschach Factors,” J. Consult. Psychol., 1947, 11, 21.Google Scholar
Wittenborn, J. R., “ Statistical Tests of Certain Rorschach Assumptions : Analysis of Discrete Responses,” ibid., 1949a, 13, 257.Google Scholar
Idem , “A Factor Analysis of Discrete Responses to the Rorschach Ink-blots,” ibid., 19496, 13, 335.Google Scholar
Idem , “Statistical Tests of Certain Rorschach Assumptions: the Internal Consistency of Scoring Categories,” ibid., 1950a, 14, 1.Google Scholar
Idem , “A Factor Analysis of Rorschach Scoring Categories,” ibid., 1950 b, 14, 261.Google Scholar
Wolfle, H. M., “ A Fundamental Principle of Personality Measurement,” Psychol. Rev., 1949, 56, 273.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.