Further thoughts on an experiential psychoanalytic approach to the Rorschach

Lerner, Paul M.

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“…'experiential' because it consists mostly in the attempt to reconstruct, to understand, and to make more explicit the experiences that the testee underwent in taking the test and his reaction to these experiences, specifically his way of approaching or avoiding and of handling the experience of the inkblots in the context of the test task" (p. 4). Lerner (1992Lerner ( , 2004) broadened Schachtel's (1966) experiential approach to the Rorschach by first distinguishing between two different types of interpretative approaches to Rorschach data, and then identifying processes involved in an experiential approach. One interpretive approach, according to Lerner (1992), is a structural approach.…”

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“…Lerner (1992Lerner ( , 2004) broadened Schachtel's (1966) experiential approach to the Rorschach by first distinguishing between two different types of interpretative approaches to Rorschach data, and then identifying processes involved in an experiential approach. One interpretive approach, according to Lerner (1992), is a structural approach. Here, emphasis is placed on test responses, the response process, and test rationales.…”

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“…In a subsequent article, Lerner (2004) further elaborated on the approach by focusing on the person of the examiner as he or she goes about interpreting a protocol. Borrowing from the treatment literature, he discussed the processes involved, including the need to immerse oneself in the raw data, the internal split between the experiencing self and the observing self, and the role of empathy and reflection.…”

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“…Although Lerner's (1992Lerner's ( , 2004 emphasis in both articles was on describing an experiential approach, he nevertheless insisted that both approaches to Rorschach interpretation, the structural and the experiential, were necessary, complementary, and interwoven. In this regard, he was attempting to integrate the work of Rapaport with that of Schachtel, all within the framework of an evolving psychoanalytic theory.…”

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On preserving a legacy: Psychoanalysis and psychological testing.

Lerner¹

2007

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With changes in the structure of the Menninger Foundation and its relocation from Topeka, Kansas, to Houston, Texas, and the greater opportunity for psychologists to obtain full psychoanalytic training, interest among psychologists/psychoanalysts in psychological testing has waned. This, in my judgment, is unfortunate, because it raises the possibility that fewer psychoanalytically oriented psychologists will be aware of the work of Rapaport and his contributions to testing. Based on the conviction that Rapaport's legacy is worth preserving, especially at a time when several are calling for a firming up of the scientific basis of psychoanalysis, in this article I review Rapaport's contributions to psychological testing, those of his students and colleagues, and discuss the work of current writers within this tradition.

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“…For instance, I became interested in extending and broadening Schachtel's formulations regarding an experiential approach to Rorschach assessment. This led to subsequent articles (Lerner, 1992(Lerner, , 1996(Lerner, , 1998 on the clinical inference process, Rorschach interpretation, and the roles of empathy and reflection in interpretation. Furthermore, it also seemed to me that as part of developing a contemporary and comprehensive psychoanalytic Rorschach psychology, one 8 LERNER commensurate with the theoretical shifts taking place, Schachtel's work had to be integrated with Rapaport's.…”

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From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio

Lerner¹

2004

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Lacking the size, talent, and speed to play shortstop for the New York Yankees, I chose instead to become a psychologist/psychoanalyst. Yet, baseball and psychoanalysis share much in common. Each is played in the inner diamonds of one's mind, values the past and what is passing, and requires a strong work ethic. Both are timeless and involve an almost boring leisureliness between occasional moments of crisis. Then too, each calls for an attitude of consistency and patience and a responsibility to do one's best. From my parents and brother to my wife and son and his family, from my teachers and supervisors to my colleagues, and from Menninger to the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), I feel deeply grateful for the partners and teammates I have and have had.

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Excursions in Rorschachlandia: Surveying the scientific and philosophical landscape of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics

Acklin

2022

J History Behavioral Science

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This article examines the milieu of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics (1921Psychodiagnostics ( /2021 under development between 1911 and his death in 1922 and explores new evidence about the direction Rorschach's test might have taken after publication of Psychodiagnostics. This includes direct and indirect influences from turn of the century K E Y W O R D S Hermann Rorschach, Ludwig Binswanger, psychiatry and philosophy, Rorschach historiography, swiss school of psychiatry 1 | INTRODUCTION This paper is written on the centenary of the publication of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics (1921) and newly annotated 100th anniversary translation of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics (Rorschach, 1921). The context of the paper is the recent English-translation and publication of the Rorschach-Binswanger correspondence in 1921-1922 and Ludwig's Binswanger's Comments on Hermann Rorschach's "Psychodiagnostics" (Acklin et al., 2021). Binswanger's Comments were initially presented to the Swiss Psychiatric Society in 1922, and later published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in 1923. 1 , 2 This previously untranslated material opens a window on the early development and direction of Rorschach's inkblot test before, at the time of, and following his sudden death in 1922.Hermann Rorschach (1884Rorschach ( -1922 was born in Zurich, the oldest of three siblings, and spent his formative years in Schaffhausen. He was the son of an art instructor and educated in Schaffhausen. His mother died when he was 13, and his father remarried his late wife's younger sister. He obtained his diploma, ranked 4th in his class, from the Kantonschule Schaffhausen, known for "its efficient and capable teaching staff and its high scholastic standing" (Ellenberger, 1957, p. 195). He attended the University of Zurich Medical School from 1904 to 1909, completing his studies and qualifying in 1910, including studies at Neuenberg, Berne, and Berlin (Akavia, 2013). While he was a medical student, he attended lectures by C. G. Jung (1875-1961) and E. Bleuler (1857-1939 in Zurich, and later authored his doctoral thesis on reflex hallucinations in 1912 under Bleuler's supervision. 3 In 1910, he married his wife, Olga, also a psychiatrist. Following his matriculation, he worked in cantonal asylums in Muensterlingen until 1913 where he started his inkblot studies, spent a year in Russia, came back to Waldau asylum in 1915, and was appointed to the 300-bed Herisau asylum. Following his medical studies at the University of Zurich, Rorschach started his experimentation with inkblots with adults and children at Muensterlingen in 1911 with a schoolteacher and close friend from Schaffhausen, Konrad Gehrig (Searls, 2017). He laid aside his inkblots experiments in 1913 to work on other projects. At the end of 1917, he resumed his inkblot studies; the result of this work was published in 1921 as Psychodiagnostics.He was described as a devoted father to his two children and a skillful toy maker, draftsman, and illustrator.Rorschach was a prolific ...

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Further thoughts on an experiential psychoanalytic approach to the Rorschach

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

On preserving a legacy: Psychoanalysis and psychological testing.

On preserving a legacy: Psychoanalysis and psychological testing.

From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio

Excursions in Rorschachlandia: Surveying the scientific and philosophical landscape of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics

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