Rorschach's Test by Alvin G. Burstein, Sandra Loucks

Rorschach's Test: Scoring and Interpretation was originally published in 1989, when current systems for Rorschach scoring had developed without a clear relationship to personality theory. This important volume provided a systematic treatment of the Rorschach test that took into account the omissions and inconsistencies of other systems, creating a meaningful and practical source for clinical psychologists at the time as well as graduate-level students of psychology, personality assessment, and projective testing. Today it can be read in its historical context.

“The system [in this book] is clearly linked to psychoanalytic theory, and should be taught in the context of supporting course work or previous knowledge of psychoanalytically informed personality theory and psychopathology. The system gives careful attention to the systematic and formal scoring of content from the point of object relations and psychosexual theory and provides not only clear scoring variables, which are theoretically and logically informed, but also multiple examples and illustrative normative data from the hundreds of pathological and nonpathological individuals.” – From the Authors’ Preface