Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschach
inkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popular
culture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year,
the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illness
across a wide range of circumstances: child custody disputes,
educational placement decisions, employment and termination
proceedings, parole determinations, and even investigations of
child abuse allegations. The test's enormous power shapes the lives
of hundreds of thousands of people -- often without their
knowledge. In the 1970s, this notoriously subjective test was
supposedly systematized and improved. But is the Rorschach more
than a modern variant on tea leaf reading?
"What's Wrong With the Rorschach?" challenges the validity and
utility of the Rorschach and explains why psychologists continue to
judge people by their reactions to ink blots, in spite of a half
century of largely negative scientific evidence.
"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, novelistic
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.
"What's Wrong With the Rorschach?" presents a powerfully
reasoned case against using the test in the courtroom or consulting
room - and reveals the strong psychological, economic, and
political forces that continue to support the Rorschach despite the
research that has exposed its shortcomings and dangers.
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