The Rorschach

In 1921, the Rorschach test was first introduced as a monograph entitled “Psychodiagnostic” by Hermann Rorschach. Originally produced to serve as a diagnostic tool for Schizophrenia, its purposes faced much controversy and it was soon designated to be projective measure of personality rather than to diagnose. Its strengths and weaknesses caused numerous studies on its reliability and validity, doubts about its purpose, and new techniques to be developed including other inkblot tests. However, whether accepted or criticized, it remained among the most intriguing and commonly used tests in clinical psychology during the 1940s and 1950s when administration was in its prime (Exner, 1974). The Rorschach test is a psychological test created by Hermann Rorschach originally as a way to identify psychological disorders and later classified as a way to receive insight into a person’s thoughts and behaviors. John Exner, PhD, released an official test manual for the Rorschach test in 1937 entitled, “The Rorschach: A …show more content…
In 2001, Donald J. Viglione of Alliant International University and Mark J. Hilsenroth of Adelphi University published an article outlining the empirical evidence found which supports reliability and validity of the Rorschach test, while addressing normative data and diversity issues. This evidence was based off of Exner’s findings in his Rorschach manual published in 2001. The conditioned stimulus sample that Exner collected data from consisted of six hundred adult, nonpatients, most of which were under the age of thirty-six and included minority subjects. The subjects were followed over a course of approximately twenty years as the Rorschach further developed (Viglione & Hilsenroth,