The Rorschach: A Comprehensive System : Basic Foundations

by Exner, John E.

• ISBN13: 9780471559023
• ISBN10: 0471559024
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

The Rorschach A Comprehensive System Volume 2: Interpretation Second Edition John E. Exner, Jr. The second volume in John E. Exner's groundbreaking work, this book is devoted to advanced scoring and interpretation, including structural assessment, content assessment, and diagnosis and prediction, as well as special issues relating to specifics of interpretation for various pathological conditions. This revised and expanded Second Edition includes findings from more than 300 studies involving more than 12,000 subjects-including young and old, patients and nonpatients-conducted since 1982. Also new to this edition are a chapter on simulation and malingering and one on issues in researching the test. 1991 (0 471-85080-2) 476 pp. The Rorschach A Comprehensive System Volume 3: Assessment of Children and Adolescents John E. Exner, Jr. and Irving B. Weiner The third volume in this highly successful series offers practitioners a single source to the essential interpretive skills for establishing accurate psychological descriptions of younger clients using the Rorschach Test. Data collected from more than 1,800 non-patient children-ages 5 through 16-provides a solid normative base for interpretation. Nineteen case studies demonstrate the use of the test for personality description, differential diagnosis, and treatment planning in cases involving schizophrenia, depression, and learning and behavior problems. 1982 (0 471-09364-5) 449 pp. Handbook of Psychological Assessment Second Edition Gary Groth-Marnat Offers step-by-step guidance to the selection, administration, evaluation, and interpretation of the WlSC-R and WAIS-R; Bender Visual Motor Gestalt; MMPI/MMPI-2; TAT; Rorschach; CPI; and projective drawings. It also offers a rational approach to integrating test results, interview data, and behavioral measurements into a psychological report. New to this edition are chapters on the context of clinical assessment; interview techniques; behavioral assessment; a review of the MMPI-2 (revised); a new scoring system for the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test; a section on clinical judgment; and more. 1990 (0 471-51034-3) 594 pp.

Table of Contents

PART I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF THE RORSCHACH
Introduction	3	(24)
Early History	3	(3)
The Rorschach Systems	6	(8)
The Concept of Projection and Projective Techniques	14	(4)
Intersystem Differences	18	(2)
The Comprehensive System	20	(7)
The Nature Of The Rorschach	27	(34)
Rorschach's Concept of the Method	27	(1)
The Rorschach as a Problem-Solving Task	28	(1)
Decision Choices	29	(5)
The Response Process	34	(17)
A Summary of the Operations in the Response Process	51	(1)
The Role of Projection in the Response	52	(1)
Summary	53	(8)
PART II ADMINISTRATION AND SCORING
Decisions And Procedures	61	(24)
The Rorschach and the Test Battery	62	(2)
Procedures of Administration	64	(6)
The Problem of Brief Protocols	70	(1)
The Problem of Lengthy Records	71	(1)
Recording the Responses	72	(1)
Inquiry Phase	73	(7)
The Location Sheet	80	(1)
Direct Inquiry and Testing of Limits	80	(1)
Comment or Response?	81	(1)
Summary	81	(4)
Scoring: The Rorschach Language	85	(8)
Location And Developmental Quality: Symbols And Criteria	93	(10)
The W Response (Wholes)	93	(1)
The D Response (Common Details)	94	(1)
The Dd Response (Unusual Details)	95	(1)
The S Response (White Space Details)	96	(1)
Location Coding for Multiple D Areas	96	(1)
Coding for the Developmental Quality of the Response	97	(6)
Determinants: Symbols And Criteria	103	(37)
The Form Determinant (F)	106	(1)
The Movement Determinants	106	(3)
Active-Passive Superscripts	109	(4)
The Color Determinants (Chromatic)	113	(7)
The Color Determinants (Achromatic)	120	(2)
The Shading Determinants	122	(2)
The Texture Determinant	124	(3)
The Shading-Dimensionality Determinant (Vista)	127	(1)
The Diffuse Shading Determinant	128	(5)
Pair and Reflection Responses	133	(4)
Interscorer Agreement	137	(1)
Summary	137	(3)
Blends, Organizational Activity, And Form Quality	140	(17)
The Blend Response(.)	140	(5)
Organizational Activity (Z)	145	(5)
Form Quality	150	(7)
Content Categories And Populars	157	(8)
Content	157	(1)
Coding Multiple Contents	158	(2)
Popular Responses	160	(5)
Special Scores	165	(10)
Unusual Verbalizations	165	(1)
Level 1---Level 2 Differentiations	166	(1)
Deviant Verbalizations (DV and DR)	166	(2)
Inappropriate Combinations (INCOM, FABCOM, CONTAM)	168	(1)
Inappropriate Logic (ALOG)	169	(1)
Perseveration and Integration Failure	169	(1)
Perseveration (PSV)	169	(2)
Confabulation (CONFAB)	171	(1)
Special Content Characteristics	171	(1)
Aggressive Movement (AG)	172	(1)
Cooperative Movement (COP)	172	(1)
Morbid Content (MOR)	172	(1)
Other Special Features of Responses	172	(1)
Abstractions (AB)	172	(1)
Personalized Answers (PER)	173	(1)
Color Projection (CP)	173	(2)
The Structural Summary	175	(18)
Sequence of Scores	175	(1)
Frequency Tallies	175	(8)
Ratios, Percentages, and Derivations	183	(1)
The Core Section	184	(1)
The Ideation Section	185	(1)
The Affect Section	186	(1)
The Mediation Section	186	(1)
The Processing Section	187	(1)
The Interpersonal Section	187	(1)
The Self-Perception Section	188	(1)
Special Indices	188	(1)
Summary	189	(4)
PART III WORKING TABLES AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Working Tables	193	(65)
Using Table A	194	(64)
Normative Data And Reference Samples	258	(63)
The Adult Sample	258	(4)
Rorschach Data and Descriptive Statistics	262	(3)
Adult Normative Data by Style	265	(12)
The Normative Samples for Children and Adolescents	277	(28)
The Psychiatric Reference Groups	305	(16)
PART IV INTERPRETATION
Some General Guidelines	321	(15)
The Interpretive Process	321	(1)
The Propositional Stage	322	(2)
Summarizing the Propositions for Each Cluster	324	(1)
The Integration Stage	325	(4)
The Final Report Stage	329	(1)
Issues of Diagnosis	330	(1)
Treatment Planning	330	(2)
Cookbooks and Computers	332	(1)
Conceptualization and Interpretive Strategies	333	(3)
The Tactics Of Interpretation	336	(17)
Records Taken under Unusual Circumstances	336	(2)
Brief Records	338	(4)
Beginning with the Suicide Constellation	342	(3)
Strategies in Addressing Clusters of Data	345	(2)
Selecting the Interpretive Strategy	347	(2)
Tertiary Variables as Starting Points	349	(1)
Case Illustration	349	(4)
Key Variables I---SCZI, DEPI, CDI	353	(17)
The Schizophrenia Index (SCZI)	353	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the SCZI	354	(2)
Rorschach Manifestations of Schizophrenia	356	(3)
The Depression Index (DEPI)	359	(2)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the DEPI	361	(2)
The Coping Deficit Index (CDI)	363	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the CDI	363	(7)
Key Variables II---The D Scores: Control And Stress Tolerance	370	(34)
The Adjusted D Score	371	(3)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the Adjusted D Score	374	(2)
The Experience Actual (EA)	376	(3)
The Adjusted Experienced Stimulation (Adj es)	379	(1)
The FM Variable	380	(3)
The Achromatic Color and Three Shading Variables	383	(1)
The Texture Variable	383	(2)
The Achromatic Color Variable	385	(1)
The Vista Variable	386	(2)
The D Score	388	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Developed from the D Score	389	(1)
The m Variable	390	(1)
The Y Variable	391	(3)
The L. S. History	394	(1)
The Controls Cluster	395	(2)
A Summary Regarding Controls and Stress Tolerance for L. S.	397	(7)
Key Variables III---Dominant Personality Styles	404	(45)
The High Lambda Style	405	(1)
The Relation of the High Lambda Style to Other Stylistic Features	406	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Developed from Lambda	407	(1)
Low Lambda Values	408	(1)
Introversive and Extratensive Styles	409	(2)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the EB	411	(5)
The Human Movement Response (M)	416	(4)
Chromatic Color Responses (FC, CF, C)	420	(3)
EB Pervasive (EBPer)	423	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on EBPer	423	(9)
The Reflection-Related Style (Fr + RF > 0)	432	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on Reflection Answers	433	(3)
The Interpersonally Passive Style (p > a + 1)	436	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the a:p Ratio	436	(3)
The Hypervigilant (HVI) Style	439	(1)
Research Related to Hypotheses Based on the HVI	439	(2)
Summary	441	(8)
Cluster Interpretation I---The Cognitive Triad	449	(40)
Information Processing	450	(1)
Processing and the High Lambda Style	450	(1)
Processing and the Obsessive Style Index	451	(1)
Research Related to the OBS Variable	451	(1)
Processing and the Hypervigilant Style	452	(1)
Processing and the Overincorporative Style---The Zd Score	452	(1)
Research Related to the Zd Score	453	(2)
Other Variables Related to Processing Effort	455	(2)
The Quality and Efficiency of Processing Activity	457	(2)
Other Findings Related to Processing Activity	459	(2)
The L. S. Protocol and Information Processing	461	(1)
Mediation	462	(1)
The High Lambda Style and Mediation	463	(1)
The Obsessive Style and Mediation	464	(1)
Basic Data Concerning Mediation	464	(2)
Mediational Dysfunction	466	(1)
Findings Related to Basic Variables in the Mediation Cluster	467	(4)
The Proportion of Unusual Answers (Xu%)	471	(2)
The L. S. Protocol and Mediation	473	(1)
Ideation	473	(8)
Quality of Responses with Special Scores	481	(2)
The L. S. Protocol and Ideation	483	(6)
Cluster Interpretation II---Affect, Self-Perception, Interpersonal Perception	489	(52)
DEPI and Affect	489	(1)
The EB and Affect	490	(1)
The eb and Affect	490	(1)
The FC:CF + C Ratio	491	(1)
Finding Related to Hypotheses Based on the FC:CF + C Ratio	492	(2)
The Affective Ratio (Afr)	494	(2)
Findings Related to Hypotheses Based on the Afr	496	(1)
Color Projection (CP)	497	(1)
Findings Related to Hypotheses Based on CP	498	(1)
White Space Responses	499	(1)
Findings Related to Hypotheses Based on S Responses	499	(2)
Blends and Affect	501	(3)
The L. S. Protocol and Affect	504	(2)
Self-Perception	506	(1)
The Egocentricity Index (3r + (2)/R)	506	(1)
Findings Related to the Egocentricity Index	507	(2)
Vista and Form Dimension Responses	509	(1)
Some Findings Concerning FD and Vista	509	(2)
Human Contents and Self-Image	511	(2)
Anatomy (An) and X-ray (Xy) Contents	513	(1)
Morbid (MOR) Responses and Self-Image	514	(1)
Analysis of the Verbal Material	514	(3)
Morbid Response Contents	517	(1)
The Content of Minus Responses and Self-Image	518	(1)
Movement Answer Contents and Self-Image	518	(1)
Embellished Content in Other Responses as Related to Self-Image	519	(1)
The L. S. Protocol and Self-Image	519	(3)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior	522	(1)
Negative Implication Variables	522	(1)
The Human Content Variables and Interpersonal Perception	523	(2)
The Personal Response (PER)	525	(2)
Cooperative (COP) and Aggressive (AG) Responses	527	(4)
The Isolation Index (Isolate/R)	531	(1)
Human Movement with Pairs (2) and Human Contents	532	(1)
The L. S. Protocol and Interpersonal Perception	533	(8)
PART V APPLICATIONS
Integrating Findings To Address Issues	541	(90)
The L. S. Summary	542	(2)
Case Illustrations	544	(1)
Protocol 1: A Question Concerning Tension and Depression	545	(9)
Interpretive Routine for Protocol 1	554	(1)
Self-Perception---Protocol 1	554	(2)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior---Protocol 1	556	(1)
Controls---Protocol 1	557	(1)
Affect---Protocol 1	557	(1)
Information Processing---Protocol 1	558	(1)
Cognitive Mediation---Protocol 1	559	(1)
Ideation---Protocol 1	559	(1)
Summary---Protocol 1	560	(2)
Protocol 2: A Question of Adolescent Withdrawal	562	(8)
Interpretive Routine for Protocol 2	570	(1)
Ideation---Protocol 2	571	(1)
Cognitive Mediation---Protocol 2	572	(1)
Information Processing---Protocol 2	573	(1)
Controls and Stress Tolerance---Protocol 2	574	(1)
Affect---Protocol 2	575	(1)
Self-Perception---Protocol 2	576	(1)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior---Protocol 2	577	(1)
Summary---Protocol 2	578	(1)
Protocol 3: A Question of Psychosomatic Involvement	579	(7)
S-CON---Protocol 3	586	(1)
Interpretive Routine for Protocol 3	587	(1)
Affect---Protocol 3	587	(1)
Controls, Stress Tolerance and Situational Stress---Protocol 3	588	(1)
Self-Perception---Protocol 3	589	(2)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior---Protocol 3	591	(1)
Information Processing---Protocol 3	591	(1)
Cognitive Mediation---Protocol 3	592	(1)
Ideation---Protocol 3	593	(1)
Summary---Protocol 3	594	(2)
Protocol 4: A Question of Impulsiveness	596	(8)
Interpretive Routine for Protocol 4	604	(1)
Self-Perception---Protocol 4	605	(1)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior---Protocol 4	606	(1)
Controls---Protocol 4	607	(1)
Affect---Protocol 4	608	(1)
Information Processing---Protocol 4	609	(1)
Cognitive Mediation---Protocol 4	610	(1)
Ideation---Protocol 4	610	(1)
Summary---Protocol 4	611	(1)
Protocol 5: A Question of Chronic Anxiety	612	(8)
Interpretive Routine for Protocol 5	620	(1)
Controls and Stress Tolerance---Protocol 5	621	(1)
Ideation---Protocol 5	621	(2)
Information Processing---Protocol 5	623	(1)
Cognitive Mediation---Protocol 5	623	(1)
Affect---Protocol 5	624	(1)
Self-Perception---Protocol 5	625	(2)
Interpersonal Perception and Behavior---Protocol 5	627	(1)
Summary---Protocol 5	628	(3)
Author Index	631	(8)
Subject Index	639