The Use of Projective Techniques in the Investigation of Emotional Aspects of General Medical Disorders: I. The Rorschach Method

Specificity of Peptic Ulcer to Intense Oral Conflicts

“…The alternative use of percentage of total responses was also tried and this gave identical results. 6 By this is meant the total number in each group who gave either a response on the Rorschach indicative of an oral conflict or obtained a Very Strong Over-all Dimensional Score on the Blacky. n.s.-not significant.…”

“…Recently, a methodological review of those studies, making use of the Rorschach test, has been published. 6 Only the first part of this review has appeared in print, but it provides some indication of the adequacy of the respective experimental designs. The authors mention the wide variability in selection of cases and controls, and in the statistical comparison between the two groups.…”

The Impact of Projective Techniques on Basic Psychological Science

“…Poser (50), for example, has studied duodenal ulcer patients and Alice Bell, Trosman and Ross (4) have summarized the use of projective techniques in the investigation of emotional aspects of general medical disorders. They review 63 recent studies with the Rorschach alone.…”

Psychoanalytic Contributions to Psychosomatic Research

“…ss, ss An excellent critique of the use of such tests in psychosomatic research has been published by Bell and hei co-workers. 4 Psychosomatic Studies of Infants and Children…”