A Comparison of the Occurrence of Oral and Anal Content on the Rorschach

Abstract

The Rorschachs of 102 male psychiatric patients were scored by the Holt system for manifestations of anal and oral psychosexual content. The frequency of occurrence of the two types of content was contrasted. Oral content occurred nearly twice as frequently as that of anal content (t test significant at less than .001 level). There was some suggestion that this difference decreases when the content expressed is of a very primitive nature.