Rorschach Content Interpretation in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Reply to Carr

Abstract

In traumatized patients, Rorschach responses draw from a variety of sources, including the traumatic event itself, past and current experiences, and internal fantasy. As complex and highly condensed mental, constructions, these responses often serve to reveal the meaning of the trauma in terms of the patient's prevailing personality conflicts In many cases, this meaning may be hidden in the response's distortion of or elaboration on images drawn from the actual event.