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The Rorschach - A Comprehensive System Basic Foundations (Vol. 1)
The fully revised edition of the premier guidebook to the Rorschach test For the last three decades, Dr. John Exner's Comprehensive System has been the leading approach worldwide to administering and interpreting the Rorschach test. The A Comprehensive System, Volume 1, Fourth Edition retains the thorough, authoritative coverage that has kept this book at the forefront of the field, while combining approaches to both evaluation and interpretation for the first time in a single volume. This new edition provides updated research and information on administering, scoring, and interpreting the Rorschach test, as well as new normative data, coverage of recent controversies and criticisms of the test, and illustrative case studies. New to this * Latest normative data for interpreting the Rorschach* More cases illustrating the techniques for administering, scoring, and interpreting the test* New chapters on interpretation* A chapter on recent controversies surrounding the test The A Comprehensive System remains the most enlightened and influential guide to the test.
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First published January 1, 1974
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February 24, 2017
The definitive source material for anyone wanting to understand the practice and interpretation of the Rorshach test. Exner proposes a quantitative system for interpreting Rorshach test responses.
This first book explains the principles, the second book includes the more advanced scoring method for actually performing the test by Exner's standard. It is a big book, but with persistence, you can skim through to what you need to know.
Regardless of whether you agree with it or not as a legal standard of mental health, the book does fairly well at portraying its message: it is well structured and organised for people fairly new to this but who have a basic general familiarity with psychology texts.
One of the hiliarious things about the test, and one to remember, is that no matter how insane the images you say you are seeing in a given inkblot, if you explicitly declare that they are cartoon images (i.e. I am seeing a cartoon of [insert horrific imagery here]), you are seen as no less sane (if anything, more) than if you had made no response at all.
In short: shaky foundations, but consistent methodology.
This first book explains the principles, the second book includes the more advanced scoring method for actually performing the test by Exner's standard. It is a big book, but with persistence, you can skim through to what you need to know.
Regardless of whether you agree with it or not as a legal standard of mental health, the book does fairly well at portraying its message: it is well structured and organised for people fairly new to this but who have a basic general familiarity with psychology texts.
One of the hiliarious things about the test, and one to remember, is that no matter how insane the images you say you are seeing in a given inkblot, if you explicitly declare that they are cartoon images (i.e. I am seeing a cartoon of [insert horrific imagery here]), you are seen as no less sane (if anything, more) than if you had made no response at all.
In short: shaky foundations, but consistent methodology.
May 3, 2008
Don't roll your eyes about the ink blot test. An expertly adminstered, scored, and interpreted protocol can be admissible in a court of law!
December 13, 2010
Dude, I feel sick. Is that a guy wearing a tux made of bacon? Just kidding - it's a tee shirt. Made of bacon.
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