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Attempts at forging the Rorschach method into a diagnostic tool are so rare that this book deserves close and careful attention. The unique feature of the investigation reported in this book was the matching of 120 clinical psychiatric symptoms occurring in schizophrenia with Rorschach components considered to be the psychological equivalents of those clinical symptoms. This matching was an extremely difficult task particularly because the Rorschach system used by Beck provided insufficient techniques for the evaluation of the patients’ overt motor behavior and of the quality and intensity of their emotions. Rorschach records of 40 patients were used in the setting up of the six types of schizophrenia with no less than four patients per type. Although all of these patients had been diagnosed by the psychiatrists as schizophrenic, only three of the six types emerging from the Rorschach analyses were discriminated by them clinically. The procedure was as follows: The psychologists took the list of 120 clinical psychiatric symptoms (or traits), made up by the psychiatrists from authoritative texts on the diagnosis of schizophrenia, analyzed the patients’ Rorschach records to see which of the clinical traits the patients seemed to possess, which they seemed not to have, and which could be neither confirmed nor denied, and ranked them on a rating scale. A judgment had to be made concerning all