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Although its use is still perhaps more circumscribed than general, the Rorschach Personality Test (popularly known as the Ink-Blot Test) has proved over and over again, under actual working conditions of the clinic, that it is a reliable and ofttimes intensely valuable tool when judiciously employed, and not expected to work miracles. The time has come, indeed, when some measure of skill or proficiency in the administering of the Rorschach has become an almost indispensable adjunct to the armamentarium of a well-trained psychologist or psychiatrist. In view of these facts, it is not very surprising that we should find clinical workers becoming more and more aware of the utility inherent in this meticulously constructed personality-measuring device.
With such thoughts in mind, W. Mons has written a concise but instructive volume entitled Principles and Practice of the Rorschach Personality Test. As an introduction to the possibilities and objectives of this test—to say nothing of such limitations as may be found to exist—Mons' study merits both attention and respect. Ever aware that he is addressing himself to the worker who possesses no previous experience in testing by the Rorschach method, the author proceeds to give a lucid exposition of procedures involved. He first deals with theoretic aspects of the Rorschach; then he goes on to examine matters like interpretation, significance of individual responses, scoring, tabulation, etc., which pertain rather more directly to exigencies of actual practice.
Perhaps the Rorschach Personality Test finds its broadest applicability in those instances where diagnosis is rendered difficult by combinations of various factors, or where it may be desirable or imperative to arrive at a differential diagnosis. In this province of clinical work, the Rorschach helps us to form impressions with regard to certain underlying personality-trends which may have promoted the development of some particular pattern of conduct. It is rightly con