Rorschach Comprehensive System Data for a Sample of 41 Adult Nonpatients From Israel

Abstract

This study presents data concerning Rorschach protocols of 41 Jewish Israeli students. The sample includes 20 males and 21 females, ranging in age from 19 to 35, who were selected from a larger sample of 50 undergraduates by applying psychiatric exclusion criteria. The results concerning the main Rorschach Comprehensive System's (CS; Exner, 2003) measures of distress (D and Adj D scores, S-Constellation, and DEPI) revealed substantial elevation. These results are analyzed in relation to the constant threat of terror, which the participants are exposed to within the context of the ongoing political conflict in the Middle East. The analysis is supported by data concerning a new Rorschach index, the Reality–Fantasy scale (RFS; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005), which applies the CS to psychoanalytic conceptualization of transitional space.

Acknowledgments

I thank Thomas Shaffer and Philip Erdberg, who invited me to present the data of the Israeli sample and conducted the reliability analyses in this project. I thank also Irving Weiner for his comments and suggestions regarding the revision of this article. The project was presented at the 18th Congress of the International Rorschach Society (IRS), Barcelona, Spain.

Notes

*Data derived from Table 22.34 in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (2000).