Eight-one first-year doctoral students in a psychodynamic program completed the SWAP-200 on a standardized case to determine the usefulness of the instrument with novice clinicians and to assess race-based differences in diagnostic outcome. The test case represented either a Caucasian or an African American woman who had either a masochistic or an obsessive-compulsive character style. Results revealed that the SWAP-200 was able to detect differences between the obsessive and masochistic cases in theoretically consistent ways. Although the SWAP-200 was useful with novice clinicians, the results revealed that the African American patient was rated as having greater narcissistic and antisocial features than the Caucasian patient. The Caucasian patient was rated as having greater avoidant, dependent, and depressive features compared to the African American patient. Implications of the findings and recommendations for training and future research are discussed.