How Clinicians Use the Rorschach

Summary

A 30-item questionnaire regarding training in, and use of the Rorschach was mailed to 750 Society for Personality Assessment and Division 12 members. Responses from the 395 questionnaires returned indicate substantial diversity among Rorschachers in training, preferred Rorschach system, and in general approach to administration, scoring, and interpretation. Approximately one in five Rorschach users does not score responses and four out of every five who do score, “personalize” their scoring. Most respondents have been trained in either the Beck or Klopfer methods but most alter the method in which they have been trained with other methods or personal experience.