What's Wrong With The Rorschach (Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test)

Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschachinkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popularculture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year,the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illnessacross a wide range of circumstances: child custody disputes,educational placement decisions, employment and terminationproceedings, parole determinations, and even investigations ofchild abuse allegations. The test's enormous power shapes the livesof hundreds of thousands of people -- often without theirknowledge. In the 1970s, this notoriously subjective test wassupposedly systematized and improved. But is the Rorschach morethan a modern variant on tea leaf reading?

What's Wrong With the Rorschach? challenges the validityand utility of the Rorschach and explains why psychologistscontinue to judge people by their reactions to ink blots, in spiteof a half century of largely negative scientific evidence.

What's Wrong With the Rorschach? offers a provocativecritique of one of the most widely applied and influential - andstill intensely controversial - psychological tests in the worldtoday. Surveying more than fifty years of clinical and scholarlyresearch, the authors provide compelling scientific evidence thatthe Rorschach has relatively little value for diagnosing mentalillness, assessing personality, predicting behavior, or uncoveringsexual abuse or other trauma. In this highly engaging, novelisticaccount of the Rorschach's origins and history, the authors detailthe wealth of scientific evidence that the test is of questionableutility for real-world decision making.

What's Wrong With the Rorschach? presents a powerfullyreasoned case against using the test in the courtroom or consultingroom - and reveals the strong psychological, economic, andpolitical forces that continue to support the Rorschach despite theresearch that has exposed its shortcomings and dangers.

This book title, What's Wrong With The Rorschach (Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test), ISBN: 9781118087121, by James M. Wood, M. Teresa Nezworski, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Howard N. Garb, published by Wiley (February 22, 2011) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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