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The Rorschach test is well recognized as a useful adjunct to the study of the total personality. It permits the science of personality study to attain a degree of specificity previously unattainable and represents the closest approach made to compressing the total personality into a pseudo mathematical formula. The test is easily administered, but the correct interpretation is another matter and entirely dependent not only on experience in giving the test but on clinical psychiatric experience and a thorough knowledge of the psychodynamics of human behavior. In the hands of an Oberholzer it can be astonishingly revealing; however, it must always be regarded as an adjunct to and not as the basis of the study of the individual personality. The majority of those who use it freely admit it has all the limitations of an isolated test.
This manual is a perplexing and callow attempt to present the Rorschach Test as an all-revealing expression of the individual's personality to be used not only as the basis for a complete character analysis, but for psychotherapy, as a philosophy and even for social reform! It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain how much of the content of this book is the thought of the author and how much has been torn from the context of the one hundred and four items listed in the bibliography ranging from Freud's Collected Works to Ernie Pyle's Brave Men.
The author begins by stating that the Rorschach test makes possible a quick and accurate insight into the total personality structure of the individual, and then goes on to say, 'When we are quite sure of the subject's personality then we can make the proper recommendations with the hope that correct comprehension will be followed by therapeutic success'. If only it were so!
In the discussion of personality types, which he divides into intraverts and extraverts according to the amount, type and ratio of Movement to Color responses, Maslow confuses the Inner Living of Rorschach with the Introversio