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This book really consists of two works. The first (Parts One to Three, inclusive) is Dr. Bruno Klopfer's exposition of the Rorschach Test. The second (Part Four) is Dr. Douglas McG. Kelley's evaluation of progress with the test in the several clinical groups.
Klopfer's contribution, which forms the bulk of the book (308 pages), offers the latest and most complete description of the Rorschach test technique as he has been teaching it. The reader wishing to acquaint himself with the form that the test is taking under his molding can, therefore, do no better than read this book. From this point of view it is quite as authoritative as its advertisements announce it. However, this review is being written by a student trained in the Rorschach-Oberholzer discipline. Judged from that sphere of reference, Klopfer has superimposed on the Rorschach test so much that is strange to it as to make it, except for the broad outlines, essentially unrecognizable. With certain new emphases in interpretation, he has made of the test another instrument. Whether for better or for worse is another matter; the point is that it is something different.
The first and most obvious transformation is in respect to the multiplicity of symbols which Dr. Klopfer has introduced. In the 'detail' category, (responses to parts of the inkblot), Rorschach's two classifications, D, Dd, are expanded to six: D, d, dd, de, di, dr. This is not to mention such inventions as D®W; or DS (apparently not identical with Rorschach's Dzw, the usual white space response). The variation becomes even more astounding in respect to movement, color and shading responses. In these categories, Rorschach was able to handle the material of his test with the simple M, C, CF, FC, and F(C) (translating his German letters), five symbols. The Klopfer repertory with M, FM, m, mF, Fm, k, kF, Fk, K, KF, FK, Fc, c, cF, FC', C'F, C', F/C, C/F, C, Cn, Cdes, Csym, is bewildering. As one studies the responses for which these Kl