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The house of cards that Herman Rorschach built has grown into a castle whose turrets sometimes lose themselves in the clouds of speculation but whose foundation appears to be fairly well established on the soil of clinical validation. In general, its strongest proponents are not insensitive to its shortcomings, nor are they oblivious to the need for a comprehensive and orienting personality theory which will give impetus and direction to carefully designed and clinically meaningful research with projective techniques. A voluminous literature on the Rorschach attests to the stimulating influence it has had upon empirical and experimental studies, and the end of so much research zeal is not yet in sight.
Unfortunately, many experimental studies have tended to disregard the uniquely holistic nature of the test, a disregard which has frequently resulted in a spate of atomistically conceived investigations which, while models of research design and statistical rigor, have usually concluded with the discouraging statement that "our findings show no statistically significant relationship between …" If clinical psychologists had taken these findings to heart, the Rorschach test would long since have been consigned to that limbo from which no