What's wrong with the Rorschach?
Subtitle: science confronts the controversial inkblot test
By: James M. Wood ... [et al.]
Contributors: Wood, Jim, 1951-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Rorschach Test
Description: "What's Wrong with the Rorschach? challenges the validity and utility of the inkblot test and explains why psychologists continue to judge people by their reactions to inkblots, in spite of a half century of largely negative scientific evidence against the test.".

"What's Wrong with the Rorschach? offers a provocative critique of one of the most widely applied and influential - and still intensely controversial - psychological tests in the world today. Surveying more than fifty years of clinical and scholarly research, the authors provide compelling scientific evidence that the Rorschach has relatively little value for diagnosing mental illness, assessing personality, predicting behavior, or uncovering sexual abuse or other trauma.

In this highly engaging and colorful account of the Rorschach's origins and history, the authors detail the wealth of scientific evidence that the test is of questionable utility for real-world decision making."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-413) and indexes
Table of contents: title: A psychological x-ray : the power of the Rorschach; title: A test is born : origins of the Rorschach inkblot technique; title: The Rorschach comes to America; title: Rorschach rules!; title: The many-portaled quandary : balkanization of the Rorschach; title: Scientists look at the Rorschach; title: The Rorschach in crisis; title: New life for the Rorschach : John E. Exner's comprehensive system; title: The unraveling of the comprehensive system; title: Still waiting for the Messiah : the future of the Rorschach; title: Clinging to the wreck : why some psychologists won't let go; title: Objection, your honor! keeping the Rorschach out of court