A Review of Beck's The Rorschach Experiment: Ventures in Blind Diagnosis (1960)

Abstract

Sam Beck's classic book The Rorschach Experiment: Ventures in Blind Diagnosis is reviewed. The review addresses important issues of blind interpretation, faithfulness to the Rorschach data, validation of interpretive postulates, theoretical and training biases, as well as the Experience Actual score. Beck's tracing his interpretive path through detailed notes to produce a living portrait of his subject is highlighted.