The purpose of this study was to investigate what personality characteristics of counselor-trainees would predict counselor effectiveness and therefore could be considered as valid selection criteria for prospective counselor trainees. Eight post-masters level students in counseling were trained as raters to use an established reasearch instrument, the Carkhuff-Berenson Scales. The fifth scale of the Carkhuff-Berenson Scales, the Gross Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning Scale (GFIFS), was utilized as the criterion of counselor effectiveness. The GFIFS score was obtained by having groups of raters evaluate segments of counselor-client interactions yielding a mean GFIFS score for each subject.The Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) was used as the measure of counselor personality and was administered to 59 American volunteer counselor trainees during the third and fourth weeks of the Spring quarter. These subjects were all enrolled in the Ball State University Master of Arts program in Counseling, in West Germany. Raters rated all counselor-trainees on three, 3-minute client-counselor therapy excerpts from an audio tape recorded the same evening the HIT was administered in a group, slide-presented form. The HIT protocol was scored by an experienced clinician who had no knowledge of the GFIFS scores obtained by the subjects.A Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient and other statistical techniques were utilized attempting to establish a relationship between personality variables and counselor effectiveness. Only two (2) of the 22 HIT variables, Abstract and Popular (Popular in a negative direction), showed a statistically significant correlation with the GFIFS. This was true whether the HIT variables were used singly or in combinations. These two variables are relatively unimportant indicators of personality based on past research and personality theory.A one way analysis of variance showed a statistically significant difference between male and female subjects in counselor effectiveness. Female subjects were found to be more effective counselors than male subjects in this study. The males obtained a GFIFS mean score of 1.98 and the females obtained a GFIFS mean score of 2.55. This difference was statistically significant at the .001 level of probability. The HIT variables were examined and it was found that the scores obtained were almost identical for males and females. In examining the relationship between HIT variables and the GFIFS by sex, it was found that two variables, Anatomy and Popular, showed a significantly negative correlation with the GFIFS for males. Anatomy was statistically significant at the .01 level of probability and Popular was statistically significant at the .002 level of probability. The HIT variable Abstract showed a significant positive correlation with the GFIFS for females at the .03 level of probability.Based on the results of this study, the HIT does not appear to be a useful instrument for predicting counselor effectiveness from counselor personality characteristics. The question as to what constitutes an effective counselor may be found in naturalistic, behavioral methods rather than in personality assessment techniques. The highly significant sex difference in counselor effectiveness merits further investigation. Recommendations for further research were made.

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The purpose of this study was to see if there are any differences in how high and low self-disclosers score on the Holtzman Inkblot Technique. The study employed a causal-comparative design for descriptive purposes. Two hundred four college students were given a self-disclosure inventory, and high and low self-disclosers were randomly selected from the highest and lowest interquartile ranges. The fifty subjects were administered the group version of the Holtzman Inkblot Technique. The results indicated that female high self-disclosers scored significantly higher on Barrier and significantly lower on Hostility than female low self-disclosers.

The proposed study has one central purpose, to determine if the Comprehensive System (CS), an empirically valid system for scoring and interpreting the Rorschach Inkblot Test, can effectively discriminate between individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Previously conducted, peer-reviewed studies since 1985 have uncovered CS variables that were statistically significant in BPD and in bipolar groups when examined separately. However, there have been relatively few such investigations, making the body of research with CS variables small in this area. It would be valuable to know whether or not the CS is a useful tool in distinguishing between these two disorders. A second goal of the current study is to uncover variables that help diagnose both bipolar disorder and BPD as separate entities. Some CS variables have not been previously studied with regard bipolar disorder or BPD. Additional research with variables known to be useful in identifying these disorders will cross-validate findings that already exist. Moreover, if the Rorschach could help classify individuals with these disorders and uncover distinct differences between them in their test results, these data would also lend support for the idea that these are indeed two different disorders, a tertiary goal of the current study. / text

Inpatient aggression has been increasingly problematic in psychiatric facilities across the United States and around the world. Psychological assessment measures, such as the Rorschach Inkblot Method, are often used in psychiatric facilities to clarify a patient's diagnostic issues and assist in treatment planning. An assessment measure that could provide information about the type, intensity, and direction of a patient's aggressive impulses would therefore be clinically useful. The current method for scoring aggression on the Rorschach provides limited information about a patient's aggressive drives; Gacono & Meloy have proposed a broader system for scoring Rorschach aggressive content. Thus far, research on this new aggression scoring system has neglected to examine patients with Axis I disorders. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the differences between the types and frequencies of these newer aggression variables, as well as the utility of these scores in predicting aggression in an inpatient sample of depressed and paranoid patients. This sample was chosen based on psychoanalytic conceptualization of aggressive dynamics in these patients. Results of Poisson and negative binomial regressions indicated that there were no differences between the depressed and paranoid groups in terms of the types or frequencies of Rorschach aggressive content. Kruskal-Wallis tests indicated that there were some differences between the groups in terms of the type and severity of behavioral manifestations of aggression. Finally, a logistic binomial regression showed that Rorschach variables did not add significantly to the prediction of the presence of aggressive behavior in this population. Clinical implications, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are examined. / text

This study will pursue the inquiry in an attempt to add to the weight of evidence for or against the reliability of the Rorschach Test as an indicator of intelligence. The problem may be resolved into a comparison between various scoring categories or factors of the Rorschach and I.Q.

This investigation represents an attempt to employ the Devries Suicide Prediction Scale and the Rorschach Inkblot Test in a two-stage predictive model which was designed to decrease the high false positive rate associated with the Devries and to design a way in which the Rorschach could be used efficiently in suicide prediction in a large mental hospital setting. The Rorschach was not found to significantly improve the predictive ability of the Devries. An unexpectedly high percentage of mental patients in the study, thirty-eight percent, admitted to previous suicide attempts, raising the question of whether suicidal behavior is not more common than is usually thought.

Thirty-three children from a community sample, ages 5 to 13, were administered the Rorschach Inkblot Test, along with projective Draw-an-Animal and Draw-a-Person tasks and other psychological measures. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three test order conditions: Draw-an-Animal followed by the Rorschach, Draw-a-Person followed by the Rorschach, and Rorschach before any other projective test. The number of Human and Animal contents in the test records was examined. Analysis showed no significant differences among the three groups for production of the content variables, suggesting that the Rorschach Inkblot Test is relatively robust with respect to test order effects.

My work explores the nature of individual perception, and the side of our lives lived entirely within our minds. I do this through the lens of self-reflection, examining the images of my own mental life and translating them into delicately handwoven cloth. These images and their structures become sensory experiences of the intangible, and a meeting place for my internal life and that of my viewer. The cloth I weave is simultaneously familiar and strange. Through woven surface and imbedded imagery, I attempt to illuminate the deep emotions that necessarily isolate us from each other, and the shared experiences of our physical beings, which connect us. The quiet, ritualistic act of weaving expresses an overlapping of mental and physical space: the resulting cloth bears within each line of warp and weft the metaphor of that process.

This thesis addresses the possibilities and limitations of Rorschach Inkblot Method in the psychological assessment of preferential rapists. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes the general characteristics of paraphilias, introduces the contemporary theories on sexual aggression and rape, and presents selected studies related to the use of RorschachInkblot Method (using Exner's Comprehensive System) in the research of paraphilias. The empirical part focuses on my research project. I have theoretically deduced variables and composites and subsequently compared them with the normative values the CS reference populations. I have also analysed the number of criterions of the Banality Profile (of psychopathy), which were fulfilled by the sample of the sexual offenders. Then I have analysed the sequence of the clusters according to the most prominent key variable among the subjects that were the most clinically disturbed. I have found statistically significant differences between the rapists and the normative population in several variables. The most prominent ones were associated with the interpersonal perception, and mediation. I have also showed that the psychopathy profile (Banality Profile) is only partially suitable for characterization of preferential rapists. Through the analysis of the...