Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing: Theory and Application
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a book for the beginner since it requires both a solid grounding in Rorschach principles and a working knowledge of psychoanalysis. To those clinical psychologists who believe implicitly in the dogma of Rorschach and psychoanalytical theory, this book will be very welcome and an invaluable aid to diagnosis. To those psychologists who believe that psychology should be a science, based only upon validated concepts, this book will be of little practical use since the major part of both Rorschach and psychoanalytic theory fails to meet the basic requirements of scientifically-minded psychologists. Dr. Schafer makes almost no attempt to discuss how the many unvalidated concepts of either Rorschach or psychoanalytical theory could be validated experimentally; in general he ignores such experimental studies as do exist. He writes as if the common assumptions of these two doctrines are established facts rather than
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