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Dr. Beck has added another to his interesting series of publications on the Rorschach test. In the present investigation the tests of eighty-one definitely schizophrenic patients in the Boston Psychopathic Hospital are compared with those of a control group of thirty-three normals and thirty-one non-psychotic hospital patients, including nine neurotics and eleven 'conduct disorders without
psychosis'. Those factors in the test results of both groups which permit numerical expression, such as the total number of answers, the number of whole, detail, rare detail, color and movement answers, etc., are then subjected to statistical comparison with the purpose of eliciting what test factors show or fail to show statistically significant differences between the groups. The generally accepted psychological meanings of these factors, alone and in combination with one another, are then discussed. In addition, Beck presents a short but unusually lucid introductory exposition of the fundamentals of the Rorschach technique itself, detailed records and interpretations of one schizophrenic and one normal Rorschach, a discussion of his own theory of personality, based on Rorschach and applied here to the problem of schizophrenia, and a final brief chapter on some typical findings in the tests of schizophrenics which could not be treated statistically because of their qualitative nature or relative infrequency. Thus the study has two main aims: one, a problem in Rorschach technique and diagnosis, to find out what is characteristic of the tests of schizophrenics; the other, to translate these findings into terms of personality traits and structure and so contribute to, confirm, or correct prevalent ideas as to the personality of the schizophrenic.
As a study in technique this work contains much of value. The scoring and diagnostic interpretation of the one detailed schizophrenic record, for instance, can be warmly recommended as an example of sound Rorschach procedure, and t