The Rorschach, Advanced Interpretation
Chapter One
Recent Developments and Interpretive Strategies
The Comprehensive System began to take shape in late 1971. The cumulative findings from a series
of studies done between 1967 and 1970 had revealed that, although each of the five markedly different
Rorschach systems (Beck, Hertz, Klopfer, Piotrowski, and Rapaport-Schafer) had considerable
merit, each also contained features that could not be supported empirically. Consequently, a
plan was formulated to integrate the empirically defensible features from each of those approaches
into a format that could stand the test of scientific scrutiny and from which research regarding various
issues of reliability and validity could proceed.
The first Comprehensive System manuscript was completed in late 1973 and published in 1974.
It soon became clear, however, that the task was far from complete; what had looked like a fairly
straightforward series of decisions in 1973 began to seem more like a never-ending project by
1977. Research completed from 1973 to 1977 suggested that some of the 1973 decisions needed to
be revised or expanded, and although many newly completed studies offered clarification and
elaboration, they also hi ... read full excerpt from The Rorschach: A Comprehensive System, Volume 2 ebook
