Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems (Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology)

Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist. This is unfortunate, because some of these systems have tremendous clinical value. Scoring the Rorschach : Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths towards the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation. The editors set the stage with an extended introduction to historical controversies and cutting-edge empirical methods for Rorschach validation. Each chapter presents a different Rorschach scoring system. A brief history is followed by detailed information on scoring and interpretation, a comprehensive summary of evidence bearing on construct validity, and discussion of clinical applications, empirical limitations, and future directions. A user-friendly scoring "manual" for each system offers readers practical guidance. The systems tap a broad array of content areas including ego defenses, thought disorder, mental representations of self and others, implicit motives, personality traits, and potential for psychotherapy. All psychologists seriously engaged in the work of personality assessment will find in this book welcome additions to their professional toolkits Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist. This is unfortunate, because some of these systems have tremendous clinical value. Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths towards the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation.linebreakThe editors set the stage with an extended introduction to historical controversies and cutting-edge empirical methods for Rorschach validation. Each chapter presents a different Rorschach scoring system. A brief history is followed by detailed information on scoring and interpretation, a comprehensive summary of evidence bearing on construct validity, and discussion of clinical applications, empirical limitations, and future directions. A user-friendly scoring "manual" for each system offers readers practical guidance.linebreakThe systems tap a broad array of content areas including ego defenses, thought disorder, mental representations of self and others, implicit motives, personality traits, and potential for psychotherapy.linebreakAll psychologists seriously engaged in the work of personality assessment will find in this book welcome additions to their professional toolkits "Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist. This is unfortunate, because some of these systems have tremendous clinical value. Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths toward the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation." "The editors set the stage with an extended introduction to historical controversies and cutting-edge empirical methods for Rorschach validation. Each chapter presents a different Rorschach scoring system. A brief history is followed by detailed information on scoring and interpretation, a comprehensive summary of evidence bearing on construct validity, clinical applications, empirical limitations, and future directions. A user-friendly scoring "manual" for each system offers readers practical guidance." "The systems tap a broad array of content areas including ego defenses, thought disorder, mental representations of self and others, implicit motives, personality traits, and potential for psychotherapy." "All psychologists seriously engaged in the work of personality assessment will find in this book welcome additions to their professional toolkits."--BOOK JACKET

The Rorschach inkblot method (RIM) has been a theme of controversy for years, largely based on the merits and failings perceived about one of its scoring methods, Exner's Comprehensive System (CS). In the conflict the two became confused as one. In response, Bornstein (psychology, Gettysburg College), Masling (psychology emeritus, State U, of New York, Buffalo) and their contributors describe other scoring methods and techniques. They start with a review of the test's history and possible future, followed by descriptions of the Rorschach prognostic rating scale, the use of the Rorschach technique for assessing formal thought disorder, the concept of the object on the Rorschach scale, the Rorschach oral dependency scale, the body image, body boundary and the barrier and penetration Rorschach scoring system, the Pripro scoring system, and the Lerner defense scale. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR