A questionnaire designed to investigate opinions about the quality of training, responsibilities in teaching, and the attitudinal climate about projective techniques was mailed to the Director of Training at all APA approved internship settings in the United States. Eight-five per cent returned the questionnaires, and the results were classified and analyzed. The majority preferred basic Rorschach training prior to the internship, opposed survey courses as a substitute for solid foundation in one or two projective techniques, and objected to any reduction in semester hours exposure to these methods. Trainees themselves were reported to have shown a sharp drop in using projective techniques in research. The findings did 'not support the idea that there has been a substantial increase in the use of non-projective methods in clinical settings. Attention was given to opposing points of view about these methods. A plea was made for a re-evaluation of our training goals and for decisions which project realistically into the future.
A teenage murderer who killed his mother, his tiny half-brother, and his step-father was studied through the imagery he associated to three different editions of inkblots. These sets included the Rorschach, Behn-Rorschach, and Ka-Ro plates. The data were used to theorize about clues, dynamics, and diagnosis in this extreme case of adolescent violence. Family background and developmental history are included. The author takes the position that a conventional analysis of these data alone is not sufficient to fully understand familial murderers. Several of C.G. Jung's concepts, notably his view about the power of shadow-projections to influence conscious percepts and his philosophy about evil as a collective phenomenon, were used to speculate about ways we might extend our understanding of this subject's extreme form of violence. Defining the archetype as an energy-complex, the discussion theorized about possible ways different forms of paranoid ideation may arise.
A Rorschach was administered to Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961 at the time of his trial for war crimes. The recent publication of this protocol offers an opportunity to compare his personal world against opinions formed about him by observers at his trial. Various professionals certified Eichmann as a banal, ordinary man, and a societal theory was proposed about Nazism based in part on impressions of Eichmann as an uncomplicated man. This commentary examines Eichmann's protocol and provides an opinion that in several important respects his record includes features uncharacteristic of an ordinary, banal mind.
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