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Having decided that 'a certain aura has gathered about the test, making of it a cult in which only the initiated may serve' (p. ix), these authors are undertaking to make it 'available to all psychologists and psychiatrists'. They do so in chapters on How to Score a Record, What the Symbols in Column I Mean, and in a style reminiscent of the 'easy lessons' style of promotion. The bulk of the book consists of the twenty Rorschach records with evaluation of responses and interpretations selected from the following groups: normal adults, children, mental defectives, neurotics, schizophrenics, organic mental disorders.
To cite in full the numerous naïvetés committed in this small book would require far more space than is allotted this review.
'When the white space is used to indicate something missing, as a gap … in our experience this type of response is frequent in the records of children and adolescents from broken homes' (p. 30). Here the authors seem themselves to be doing some free associating of the Klang variety: 'broken blot', 'broken home'. Experience of other workers does not confirm this superficially simple working of the test.
'We feel that individuals of superior intelligence should not give an F— unless they are emotionally disturbed' (p. 38, n). Scientific method happens to be not a matter of feeling, but observation. The fact is that the healthy superiors always have some F—. They dare to make errors. That goes with superiority. With their highly endowed personalities they more than compensate for their errors as does also the rich Rorschach response pattern for the F—.
Referring to the D (major detail) response: 'The shape of these