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The book “Inkblot Personality Test - Understanding the Unconscious Mind” written by Bankey Lal Dubey, Padmakali Banerjee and Anand Dubey is a comprehensive book on Inkblot Tests- Rorschach, Holtzman and Somatic Imagery Test. It is published by SAGE Publications in September 2...
This article is a response to the recent editorial by Piotrowski (2019). In our article (Benson et al., 2019), we reported results from a national survey of the tests and assessment practices used by contemporary school psychologists in the United States. We appreciate Piotrowski...
How writing has been and continues to be a relevant clinical tool and potential source of projective material is discussed. Criterion to produce written projective materials is limited to individuals with adequate reading and writing abilities. Clinical tools/approaches noted are...
Personality tests, long a mainstay of clinical training, comprise a diminishing portion of the graduate school curriculum despite increasing evidence of their validity. While defensible given the expanded assessment toolkit and other innovations of contemporary clinical practice,...
Piotrowski (2016) reviewed 30 studies documenting psychologists‟ use of the Bender-Gestalt (B-G) from 1992 to 2014 across a variety of settings and samples. Based on his review, he offered the following conclusions: mental health practitioners, including psychologists, ignore ...
The studies on various indices, including CDI have been conducted in many cultures but there is dearth of studies in India. To study the effectiveness of this index and its relationship with self-reported measure of coping, the patients of three groups of 15 subjects in each(N=45...
Comprehensive evaluation of pain, particularly the confounding influence of somatoform co-morbidity, is perhaps one of the most perplexing challenges faced by practicing clinicians (Bruns & Disorbio, 2015; Flor & Turk, 2011). Moreover, the assessment of pain populations i...
Due to their temporal proximity (2 weeks apart), Hurricanes Harvey (Texas) and Irma (Florida) in 2017 provided a unique opportunity to examine the potentially differential views of impacted populations toward both tropical events. From a theoretical perspective, the issues of emp...
The status of tests and measures in assessment, in both mental health practice and training settings, has attracted extensive professional and academic attention over the past 70 years. Bennion et al. (2019, this issue) provide a rather detailed critique regarding the conclusions...
For almost the majority of the last century, one test that has both fascinated us and likewise being subjected to immense criticism, is the projective test named Rorschach Ink blot Test. Controversies regarding this test‘s validity and utility was perhaps even higher when diffe...
In several articles, my colleagues and I have addressed concerns regarding methodological issues with the recent RIM research (see Cunliffe et al., 2012; Gacono, Loving, &Bodholdt, 2001; Smith et. al., 2018). In many studies, the impact of these issues is frequently hidden, m...
Bibliometric studies, particularly content analysis methodologies, of the extant literature can provide a snapshot on the nature, scope, and breadth of a select body of knowledge available in scholarly repositories. Although several bibliometric studies regarding the field of Per...
Past research suggests that gambling addiction and celebrity addiction may share common features. A survey containing two measures of gambling addiction and two measures of celebrity addiction were administered to 182 adult participants from the United States recruited through Me...
Mihura, J.L., et al. (2017). Psychological assessment training in clinical psychology doctoral programs. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99(2), 153-164. Neukrug, E., et al. (2013). A national survey of assessment instruments taught by counselor educators. Counselor Education &...
Historically, projective methods, as a class, have been the target of extensive criticism in the scholarly literature (e.g., Lilienfeld et al., 2000). Although the Rorschach has been the prime target of this barrage of condescending scholarly attacks, reviews of the extant survey...
Social definition and self definition are implicit personality styles in which individuals either adopt or may not conform to societal norms when defining their identity, respectively. The content validity of the scoring categories for this thematic apperceptive technique (TAT) s...
We are presenting a case of 37 years old male suffering from illness anxiety disorder for one and half years who was treated with Cognitive Drill Therapy. Following outcome measures were used to map the status of illness anxiety on baseline, termination and follow up. (i) Sheehan...
In a recent editorial, Piotrowski (2017) contends that the fate of projective techniques will be linked to the precarious status of personality assessment in clinical training settings. Moreover, since 1990, projective techniques, as a class, have been the target of extensive cri...
The following paper provides an overview and discussion of past and present trends in training related to projective personality assessment. The authors summarize the historical use of projective testing (particularly the Rorschach) and emerging research examining the use of proj...
The status of the Rorschach and its role in neurophysiological assessment has had a rather erratic and not so cherished historical journey. Seminal research in this area largely focused on the Rorschach ‘sign’ approach in the study of organic brain disorders, while later rese...
There are two prominent evidence-based systems of the Rorschach currently in practice: the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003), which dominated the field for nearly four decades, and the more recently published Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS; Meyer, Viglione, M...
Teglasi, H. (2010). Essentials of TAT and other storytelling assessments (2nded.). New York: Wiley. Wechsler, S.M., Oakland, T., Leon, C., et al. (2014). Test development and use in five Iberian Latin American countries. International Journal of Psychology, 49(4), 233-239. Wood, ...
Historically, projective techniques have left an impressive, yet contentious, footprint worldwide (Groth-Marnat, 2009; Handler & Thomas, 2014; Musewicz et al., 2009; Piotrowski, 2015; Piotrowski, Keller, & Ogawa, 1993; Teglasi, 2010; Wood et al., 2011). Interestingly, sur...
Although personality assessment has its roots in psychoanalytic psychology, its relationship to psychoanalysis in contemporary practice remains vague. Yet, an assessment that utilizes performance-based measures that provide an analog of sorts to the psychoanalytic situation can s...
Psychopathy is considered an essential construct in forensic work (Gacono, 2016). Most methodologically sound studies have involved males rather than females (Smith et al., 2014). Gender differences have been found to be, and continue to be considered important in the assessment...
Frauenhoffer, D., Ross, M.J., Gfeller, J., Searight, H.R., & Piotrowski, C. (1998). Psychological test usage among licensed mental health practitioners: A multidisciplinary survey. Journal of Psychological Practice, 4(1), 28-33. Fredman, N., & Sherman, R. (1987). Handbook...
Over the past 30 years, there has been increasing clinical interest regarding the issue of assessment and use of specific mental health measures in the field of marital and family therapy (MFT) (Carlson et al., 2013; Fredman & Sherman, 1987; Nurse 1999). Yet, diagnostic testi...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) has emerged as an efficient procedure of psychological treatment for anxiety spectrum disorders specifically phobia and OCD. It uses a straightforward conceptualization of stimulus bound anxiety. A stimulus triggers a threat perception which elicits ...
Mental health and emotional stability are very important factors in everyday life. In order to improve emotional mental health, one needs to understand the present status of one‟s mental health in the context of developing resilience and fortitude in dealing with the dynamic en...
While copious survey-based data on test usage worldwide have been published, there is limited research available on assessment practices in mental health settings in South America. To address this gap in the literature the current study focused on psychological testing practices ...
This article explores the utility, validity and reliability of three psychological tests in predicting fund managers investment performance. Two of the psychological tests-the Zulliger and Wartegg tests-represented implicit psychological motives. The third test-the Personality Re...
Survey-based „test use‟ studies in the 1990s found that the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was not a highly ranked test in the assessment of personality and psychopathology (e.g., Watkins et al., 1995). However, Piotrowski (2000) reported that the PAI was indeed a wel...
Literature reviews regarding practice settings have indicated that, historically, projective methods/techniques (hereon, PT) have been popular clinical tests and relied upon assessment tools in the mental health field in the USA. However, the same cannot be said for clinical/prof...
We need to train space scientists with regard to the significant potential for adapting SIS Body-Mind-Spirit technology for health screening, psychological treatment and research! Members of SIS Society are encouraged to be optimistic regarding the power of scientific technology ...
Most studies though report that emotion regulation (ER) mediates the relationship of mindfulness with subjective well-being (SWB), there is also an unexamined conjecture that ER skills cultivate mindfulness which consequently enhances SWB. Present study attempts to empirically te...
This study presents the results of an exploratory bibliometric ‘topical’ analysis with regard to mainly primary research regarding the Rorschach published in journal articles 2000-2016. The major aim is to a) determine the scope and breadth of investigatory areas most emphasi...
The present study attempts to validate and extend the earlier findings linking blood pressure (BP) and reduced emotion recognition ability i.e., emotional dampening (ED). Twenty normotensive participants had their BP readings taken via an automated BP monitor and were subsequent...
A cursory review of the recent literature in the areas of testing and assessment tends to depict the impression that Thematic tests have been largely eschewed in professional practice over the past 2 decades. Indeed, this class of assessment instruments has been the target of ext...
In my Jan 2016 editorial I wrote about the time limited aspects of the human body and hence its occupant’s existence. Since then I have turned 82 years old and confess to readers that my psychological defense mechanisms are weakening which earlier in life enabled me to deny “...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) capitalizes on the principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive appraisal and linguistics. Combined together in a customized manner, application of these principles have the potentials of efficient handling of stimulus bound ...
Exner Jr’s contribution in the area of Clinical Psychology especially personality assessment has been remarkable. He has devoted his entire professional life in the development of Rorschach and his comprehensive system. His methods, procedures and interpretation of Rorschach be...
SIS is a projective tools which can be employed to tap both intra-psychic and interpersonal aspects of a person. We were interested to study if any of SIS-II indices are linked with suggestibility of the respondents. We sampled 18 adults in the age range of 18-35 years after scre...
The Bender-Gestalt Test (B-G) has long been a standard measure in the assessment of perceptual-motor integration and frequently relied upon by psychologists and psycho-educational specialists. Historically, this instrument has ranked amongst the top tests in clinical usage. Moreo...
Sensorium-oriented self-system peeps into the external reality in search of bodily pleasure and its resonance in mind. In the process itself, it encounters pains at times. Pleasure and pain are inevitably entwined. To have peace, harmony and the deep feelings of serenity in this ...
Hypnotizability is a key variable of interest which is being studied with reference to several psychological and physiological variables. In the present study we explored the relationship between Hypnotizability and Suggestibility in young adults. A correlational design was used....
The present study examined the role of self- esteem and emotion regulation on the mental health of youth. 121 college students were administered Self Esteem Inventory, DERS scale and Mental Health Scale. Statistical analysis was done using Two Way ANOVA. The findings revealed sig...
The correlation of Rorschach, SIS-I and SIS-II inkblot tests were measured to find out the mutual empirical validity with MMPI test. The three tests were administered to 98 subjects. The results were ciphered on identical forms containing 54 categories which were correlated with...
“Everyone is going to die, it doesn’t bother me – I just don’t want to be there when it happens!” – Woody Allen People worldwide face their own ultimate mortality with a wide range of culturally/emotionally colored reactions. Like the comedian Woody Allen, some use hu...
Academic training with projective methods has been an enduring and enigmatic feature of the assessment curriculum in professional and clinical psychology since the 1940s. However, the past 2 decades have witnessed a steady stream of rather disparaging commentary directed largely ...
In early April of this year my wife and I traveled to Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island in Canada. Here we live in a retirement facility for seniors that have beautiful grounds. Initially for a few evenings this environmental setting enabled a mesmerizing view of a b...
The present study was an attempt to gather preliminary observations to explore if Exner’s Comprehensive Scoring System is sensitive enough to tap and discriminate various kinds of disorders of content of thought, specifically, delusion of infidelity in persons with psychotic il...
Panek, Wagner and Kennedy-Zwergel (1983) and Hayslip and Lowman (1986) have reviewed the use of expressive personality tests with older adults. In this context, the present review presents and discusses the research on human figure drawing techniques (HFD) with older adults durin...
Social desirability bias represents tendency to present oneself in a socially desirable or positive manner to others. As there is high possibility of faking good or bad in objective psychological tools many psychologists rely more on projective psychological assessment to identif...
This year in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Douglas C. Thomas Ph.D. et al ’s most interesting paper entitled “Modifying Resilience Mechanisms in at Risk Individuals: A Controlled Study of Mindfulness Training in Marines Preparing for Deployment” is ...
Psychological measurement that require subjects to interpret ambiguous stimuli have long been labeled projective tests, but because the degree to which projection shapes responses to these stimuli is unclear, recently these instruments have been described as free-response tests...
The formats of a society and the flow of life therein are its interpersonal bonds. In relational matrix in life, the possibilities of health and ill health are equally prominent. Healthy relationships are avenues of happiness and well-being; unhealthy relationships invite patholo...
Somatic Inkblot series-II (SIS-II) was administered to a 30 years male, educated up to 9th class, preoccupied with thoughts of being ugly for the last 15 years, with decreased social interaction and low mood from last 2 years. According to DSM-IV, he was diagnosed as “Body Dysm...
Low prevalence has been reported for somatization in psychiatric set up; however, high rate of this psychiatric disease in the general health set up is creating high disease burden. It is also reported that somatization is hardly diagnosed due to its high emphasis on physical dom...
This article critically relocates the debate concerning the validity and utility of projective tests within multiple interpretative and process oriented approaches. Some scholars opine that there could be alternate ways of looking at projective tests, for example using it as a te...
This case study provides a structured and qualitative look at changes in Rorschach Inkblot Test responses for two creative writers over the courses of their psychoanalyses. Attention was paid to capacity to preserve transitional space between reality and fantasy using the Realit...
In the July of 2013 issue of the journal my editorial reviewed SIS technology techniques whose validity has been established primarily through phenomenological case history studies. Not only do these have several applications in clinical settings, they also provide illumination f...
Rorschach Inkblot test has been in use in India since 1947 and was used with diverse clinical and non-clinical population. In the recent period it is primarily used with the clinical population. Different scoring systems are followed in the country. Though research findings show...
The present study aims to see the effect of systematic desensitization and group therapy on different type of phobic patients viz: hydrophobia, zoophobia, nyctophobia and astraphobia. One hundred and ten (110) phobic patients matched on Socio-economic status, ranging from 12 to 1...
The authors present a model of crisis intervention experienced at a psychiatric service located in General Hospital and run by a team of psychiatrists and psychologists. The purpose of the intervention was to apply a model of reading and psychodynamic intervention to periods of p...
The present paper using the Somatic Inkblot Series SIS-II deals with the seemingly impossible perception of one’s own dead body. It involves a Vietnam solder suffering from Combat PTSD, who in a transient psychotic state hallucinated seeing his own dead body in a mass grave alo...
Previous empirical evidences show that though, alexithymia is associated with a variety of somatic and mental health problems, the exact mechanism that makes alexithymic individual prone to mental or somatic illness has not yet been uncovered. Based on earlier observations that a...
Synergies of meaningful movements form the basic elements of individuals’ unique way of relating with others in the environment. Mind-body-connectivity serves as one of the chief pillars of dance/ movement therapy, which relies on the search for one’s “authentic movements...
The incidence of Juvenile delinquency is increasing internationally. Various psychological, social and environmental factors are playing vital role in its development. The present study aims to find out the personality characteristics of juvenile delinquents as compared to non-de...
The present study examines the effect of psychotherapy on pathological gamblers. Ninety five (95) treated and 95 non-treated pathological gamblers were evaluated at SIMPHS Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched with respect to age (ranging from 23 to 61 years with a mean ...
The paper presents a clinical vignette regarding the psychological assessment of seven years old boy, following a traumatic event, an accident with a bus that resulted in his grandfather’s death. We wish to illustrate how the administration of projective techniques, like the Ro...
Researches indicate that culturally induced differences in self-perception have significant influence on an individual’s general attitude and behaviour including his/her evaluation of subjective happiness and self-worth. The individualistic cultures focus more on independence, ...
The paper is designed for training students in SIS technology for detecting, otherwise unreported, suicidal/homicidal ideation with the help of responses projected on Somatic Inkblots Images. Four clinical cases are presented to illustrate how SIS technique brings to the surface ...
Chapter one has emphasized the conceptual frame work and achievement of HERMANN RORSCHACH- Father of Inkblots testing. All the achievements what Hermann is credited was in very short period of 11 years. His untimely death created a vacuum which led many future Rorschachians to de...
The present study attempts to examine the effect of cognitive behavior therapy and relaxation practices on chronic migraine patients. 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at SIMPHS Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range from 20 to 55 years w...
Fundamental memory retrieval processes influence what is seen or written, as a response sequence on the SIS Answer Booklet. For illustration purposes consider a most simple conceptual model involving a medical specialist (e.g. a hypothetical pathologist). Such a professional who ...
Projective – analytic theory is based on the assumption that deep and often unconscious feelings and motives may be accessed through various means of self expression. The drawing of human figure was seen by Machover as an ideal vehicle for self expression. Various studies revea...
The paper emphasizes the importance of projective methods in psychological assessment and places these methods in the context of other psychological assessment instruments. The clinical status of Rorschach test and the administration, coding, structural summary and interpretation...
The present study was designed to compare the pattern of responses on SIS-I in normal males and females. SIS-I was administered to 200 normal persons comprising two groups (Males (n=82) and Females (n=112). The SIS-I was administered individually and the data was analyzed throu...
The paper highlights the clinical probing of a case, aged 8 years, first born, and belonging to a Muslim family of middle socio-economic strata, living with maternal grandparents, and having adjustment problems. She was administered with the Children’s Apperception Test (CAT), ...
The present study reports the relationship of emotion regulation difficulties and alexithymia with mental health and subjective wellbeing of an individual. Two hundred and eighty eight participants (218 males and 70 females) in the age range of 16 to 38 years (Mean age =20.78, SD...
The present study aimed to develop the normative data on Rorschach Test and present a comparative view of Indian male and females. Subjects for the study were taken from Delhi by using systematic random sampling technique. The Rorschach Ink Blot Test was administered on 238 subje...
This is a case report of 20 years old male, educated up to ninth standard, taking alcohol, ganja, brown sugar (smack), cigarette, and tobacco from last 5 yrs. According to ICD-10 he was diagnosed as a case of Mental and Behavioral Disorder. On psychological evaluation he was guar...
This study has been designed to find the response pattern of mania patients on Rorschach by using the Exner comprehensive system. Main objective of the study was to develop a profile of mania patients on Rorschach variables. 120 Bipolar Affective disorders patients, current episo...
The relationship emotion and health has been a focus of scientific inquiry in psychology for a long time but it occupied pivotal position with the advent of Alexander’s psychosomatic paradigm. Since then, a number of affect related constructs have been explicated with potential...
The present study examined the effect of prior exposure to the Rorschach on selected Rorschach variables. An availability sample of Mexican-American undergraduate students (N = 59) was randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (a) an experimental group (n = 28) or (b) a control...
Many researchers working with SIS-I have felt the need of an extended scoring system for the test. After an extensive review of the literature available on inkblots, the Comprehensive Scoring System (CSS) for SIS-I was developed on the basis of Beck’s scoring system for Rorscha...
The self is the integrating core of personality and any threat to self is a threat to individual’s existence. Consequently, various defense mechanisms are gradually learned for protecting the self. The present study was conducted to find out the psychological defenses used by t...
The study was under taken to ascertain personality characteristics of treated and non-treated charas addicts using projective technique of personality assessment. Fifty treated and 50 non-treated charas addicts from Varanasi (India) formed the sample of the study. Thee groups wer...
The Rorschach Comprehensive System (Exner) included number of empirically derived constellation (such as DEPI) aimed at the identification of Depression. Depression Index was validated by various researchers. However a few independent studies on the diagnostic efficiency of the D...
With the focus of Rorschach shifting from being a qualitative to a quantitative instrument, the emphasis on a specific content changed from content’s having a specific meaning to its belongingness to a cluster of related contents. The current research investigation is intended ...
This conference becomes more important because it is being held at one of the two premium Institutes of Psychiatry and the largest Mental Hospital in India. The other important reason is to celebrate 100 years of the publication of Clinical Psychology Journal started by Lightner ...
In clinical practice, one comes across many fears, misgiving, apprehensions and misconceptions about projective techniques, particularly about the inkblot techniques. These misconceptions in general population need to be effectively removed or controlled at least if it is not pos...
Our own concept of our body becomes distorted by, interactions of different variables like aging process, physical disorders, psychological disorders and surgical interventions. It can be reflected through projective techniques like inkblot techniques and human figure drawings. W...
The present study examines the stability of SIS-II response contents on a sample of 30 subjects over time in two ways, i.e., it analyses the consistency of responses evolved by individual images in a number of people, as well as it measures an individual’s consistency in respon...
Much previous work suggests that the Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) and Living Images video (LIV) can prove effective treatment aides. Viewing the inkblots can activate imagery accessing the “inner cry" of suffering individuals (Cassell, 1980). In those highly resistant to i...
Most of the troubles with which a psychotherapist has to deal with are of a psychosomatic nature, which can be approached from two sides-Mind or Body or both. If we approach from the mental side we have to take into consideration the whole of the psyche – its conscious as well ...
The present study purports to compare the therapeutic efficacy of Bio-Feed Back Therapy (BFB) with Pharmacotherapy among cases of GAD. It includes 50 cases of GAD (M ; 38 & F: 12) in the age range of 20 to 55 years (Mean age 32 years), with their educational qualification, ra...
SIS-II, based on the theory of somatic imagery seeks to probe into the abnormal somatic concern of the individual. There is a felt need to develop an index of this abnormal somatic concern based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the responses. A model for such an in...
This paper deals with the increasing number of the Aged and their problems especially the very serious ones like Senile dementia and Alzhmeir’s disease Hartington’s disease etc. and suggests psycho-synthesis as a means of prevention and treatment. The paper also gives very br...
The Rorschach test by Klopfer’s method was administered to 75 consecutive injury patients and equal number of age, sex, education, marital status, economic status, domicile and intelligence quotient matched normal control subjects. Utilizing the Piotrowski signs we identified 4...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II) has been recognised as one of the most powerful psychodiagnostic instrument among various psychiatric groups. To find out its diagnostic validity against Rorschach test among psychopathological cases of Armed Forces, the SIS-II was administe...
This case-history shows how Somatic Inkblot Series act as excellent psychodiagnostic tools.When other tests failed, SIS came to the help of the author for psychodiagnosis. This is clear from this case-history. The patient rejected cards numbering XII, XIII & XIV of SIS-I and ...
Rorschach and SIS-II, the two most popular inkblot tests of personality, were administered to 32 psychiatric patients in order to see their inter-relations on selected variables. Both the scales showed some degree of overlap with significant correlations between the two scales on...
At this time consideration needs to be given to the scientific examination of the risk factors in the spreading virus of violence. This would appear to be especially true in the United States. More and more, the media are reporting mass acts of violence by school-age children. Ma...
The real beginning of Projective Psychology in India may be credited to the author with his first exposure with Rorschach test under the guidance of Dr. James Silverberg (1955) who had administered Rorschach Test to the author in1949 and on the basis of author's performance ...
Psychotherapeutic use of projective techniques is not new. These techniques have been on use quite some time. The recent emphasis through the use of SIS makes it a rich and more pleasurable experience. A new way of looking at one’s thoughts, perceptions and behavior (including ...
The report describes a preliminary attempt to examine the Interco relations between TAT Alexithymia indices (proposed by Volant’s et. Al. (19867) in normal adolescent population and to explore the fictiveness of these indices from other constructs such as emotional usability an...
This is the case history of a girl having early schizophrenia. The case-history shows the etiology of this disease, which has been systemically worked out and confirmed. Various therapies including projective tests like Somatic Inkblot Seers-II (SIS-II). Rorschach, “d” Test a...
Three groups of 20 schizophrenics each with mean length of hospitalization 3.2 months 3.7. years and 11.2 years were given the Rorschach test by Klopfer’s method Conditions for applying Piotrowski’s alpha index were present in 29 schizophrenics out of whom 28 (96.6% were corr...
This investigative report is an attempt to trace the salient feature of SIS measure on the basis of subtle common indices of the Rorschach test by Klopfer’s method. The SIS-I and the Rorschach Inkblot Test were administered on 15 heroin addicts and 15-matched normal. Series com...
Somatic Inkblot Series is the latest inkblot test. It is a structured, projective, diagnostic instrument and an adjunct to psychotherapy. It has high erectility and content validity. The series was tried on different groups of clinical and normal subjects and was found to have di...
The Rorschach test by Klopfer’s method was administered to 100 consecutive Schizophrenic patients and 100 consecutive neurotic patients. The records of 54 Schizophrenics and 41 neurotics fulfilled the two requirements for application of Piotrowaski’s Alpha Index. The Alpha in...
During the author’s experience of about 50 years as a Clinical Psychologist, he used projective tests like Rorschach, Holtzman Inkblot Test, TAT and Dosajh Test for psycho diagnosis. Recently he has started using Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II) because he finds it more conve...
In the epic “Meghdootam”, the immortal poet Kalidas used clouds as a messenger to convey his feelings of love for humanity – through the usual medium of a love story. (A Yaksha sending his message of love to his beloved). In a way the inkblots can also be considered as a s...
Initially Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II ) protocols of 100 cases (50 each of alcohol and drug dependence) were examined after a follow-up period of six months. The patients why ‘improved’ and failed to improve’ were kept in separate groups and were compared for selected...
It is with great sadness that write this editorial. This particular journal is dedicated to the spirit of Professor Seymour Fisher who died suddenly on December 5th in Syracuse. New York. During his lifetime. He was one of the great leaders in American psychology. He was an outst...
In the present study, 10 new inkblot cards were administered on M.D.P.-M, Alcohol Dependent and Normal group’s of subjects. The final analysis revealed that all three groups under study were significantly different on most of the three major inkblot variables that were selected...
For assessment of human personality, there are a number of difficulties. Firstly it is rather difficult for human being to assess human beings The person trying to assess the other human being gets automatically involved emotionally and thus become a member of the in group and so...
The SIS (SIS-I and SIS Video) and the Rorschach test was administered to a 42 years female patient. This SIS and the Rorschach were able to bring out her inner cry and depressive contents related to her father’s death due to cancer and her own recovery after cancer. SIS images ...
Inkblot techniques have now been in use for nearly a century. Starting as indirect techniques overcoming limitations of transparency in items used in questionnaires and rating scales and therefore subject to motivational distortions these inkblot techniques have brought a new and...