A Study of the Time Required to Do a Rorschach Examination

Setection of abbreviated tat sets

“…This discussion will be limited to shortened forms of standard tests and will not include brief tests. "I'his hvestigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Men- Although Valentine's study has been largely ignored, it is a matter of evidence that a complete Rorschach evaluation requires "a little more than four hours" (33) and is considered insufficient as the sole diagnostic instrument (36). The effect of position or order of presentation has been studied for the Rorschach(30) as well as for personality inventories (I8) and the necessity for restandardization of any altered test is recognized (37.…”

Some Problems of Validation of Projective Techniques

“…(1) Projectives are generally used as individual rather than group tests, and interpretation involves an intensive investigation of the personality of the individual which OF THE TECHNIQUE IN RESEARCH is very time-consuming. Odom (1950) has recently investigated the time required to do a Rorschach examination, for example, and finds that the time required to do an average test, including administration and all steps of analysis and report, is a little more than four hours, although sometimes less than two hours or more than eight hours may be required, depending upon the complexity of the response pattern of the individual. ethough presumably beginners may take much longer than this, the experts (and he quotes Beck, Klopfer and Hertz) feel that the figures quoted are a conservative estimateeven as applied to themselves.…”