Relationship between diagnostic category and deviant verbalizations on the Rorschach.

A comparison of anorexics and schizophrenics on psychodiagnostic measures

“…IQ was also covaried out. Although the Delta Index, a research scale measuring pathological thinking, yielded no significant statistical differences, the means (anorexics 12.85; schizophrenics, 17.61) were consistent with those reported previously for schizophrenics (17.7, Kataguchi, 1959) and borderline schizophrenics (10.5, Powers and Hamlin, 1955). ANCOVAs were performed on location scores (W, D, Watkins & Stauffacher, 1952).…”

A technique for the study of psychodynamic relationships: The effects of subliminally presented aggressive stimuli on the production of pathological thinking in a schizophrenic population.

“…Included here are responses that have been referred to traditionally in the Rorschach literature as contaminations, confabulations, fabulized combinations, peculiar verbalizations, etc. The utility of these categories for assessing pathological thinking has been demonstrated in a number of studies (Hertz & Paolino, 1960;Powers & Hamlin, 1955;Silverman, Lapkin, & Rosenbaum, 1962;Watkins, & Stauffacher, 19S2).…”

Postdiction of the outcome of somatic therapy from the Rorschach records of schizophrenic patients.

“…In their ratings it was agreed that the judges would use the cutting point between 2 and 3, that is, Points 1 and 2 for unimproved and Points 3, 4, and 5, for improved. The efficacy of rating scales was evaluated from the work of (Grauer, 1953;Powers & Hamlin, 1955;Watkins & Stauffacher, 1952).…”

“…All of these report relatively little predictive value from the sign approach. In comparing the diagnosticsign and content-analysis approaches in their investigations, (Grauer, 1953;Powers & Hamlin, 1955;Watkins & Stauffacher, 1952;Zubin, 1954), reported that the latter seems to be more reliable than the former as a procedure. A comparison by (Goldman, 1960), between the two approaches in evaluating the improvement to be expected from schizophrenic patients receiving therapy demonstrated that the content-analysis was more reliable than the diagnostic-sign approach.…”