Rattonale for Routine Rorschach “Testing — the — Limits”

The Encounter with the Unfamiliar

“…In the absence of such mapping (norms), it should prove useful to the average clinician to really study and evaluate the qualities of the stimulus giving rise to the response. How much is stimulus and how much has the perceiver modified reality, thereby revealing the personality in question?Although originally intended for routine clinical administration, most Rorschachers will benefit from a conceptual factor analysis suggested by Hutt and Shor, (1946). Take the 10 inkblots and sore them into piles according to whatever concepts you “find” in the cards.…”

Prediction of behavior by means of the Rorschach test.

“…Another approach to the problem of obtaining a sample of behavior is the exploration by the examiner of the limits .of obtained reactions. Among the more promising techniques are the testing of limits (24), the analysis of the subject's free associations to his responses (28), and the measurement of his ability to alter his responses to the test when the scoring symbols are described to him (23).…”

A clinical study of "consecutive" and "adaptive" testing with the revised Stanford-Binet.

“…Wells and Ruesch [12] recommend variations in test procedure for example so that the clinician may observe certain types of test behavior and infer therefrom some tenable hypotheses regarding the subject. Hutt and Shor [4] have suggested systematic variations in Rorschach procedure to secure a more comprehensive appraisal of the personality structure. Rodnick and Shakow [8] require the subject to attempt to adapt to an unpredictable sequence of a stimuli as a means of gauging intensity of psychiatric illness.…”