PMID: 18404871Apr 15, 2008Paper

Bases and principles of a qualitative approach in the phenomeno-structural analysis applied to Rorschach's method

Bulletin De La Société Des Sciences Médicales Du Grand-Duché De Luxembourg
J M Barthélémy

Abstract

In the days when a first assessment was becoming necessary, twenty years after the first edition of Rorschach's Psychodiagnostic, which was being edited for the 4th time, and while he was worried about the readjustment of the scientific bases of this experiment, his friend and colleague Doctor Walter Morgenthaler was feeling the need to warn against the use, teaching and interpreting of this method of approaching personality in a too mechanical way, saying: "For some scientific problems and statistical research the simple quotation can be enough or at least the main thing, but for the very diagnosis of the personality, the mechanical side, especially the mathematical accuracy, although necessary, is nothing but a base. Many errors in the use of Rorschach's method are coming from the fact that the mechanical framework is taken as the whole result." (Psychodiagnostics, P. 254) Discovering and applying this method at around the same time, Francoise Minkowska is going to feel as well the need for its qualitative access, putting accents or suggesting proceedings in theoretical patterns, procedures and interpretation of results which will influence an overall direction close to Morgenthaler's one in this matter: "The psychogram, thro...Continue Reading

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