The Comparison of Coping resources, Personality styles, Thought and Affective Patterns among Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia

013 Introduction Need for accurate psychological assessment in the field of mental health has been important and well recognized for various reasons and one of them is be t te r conceptualization of the patients for correct diagnosis and their management. In the evolution of psychological tests, there are many which have been proving them effective for this purpose. One of such tests is Rorschach Inkblot Test. Countering the controversy related to the efficacy of projective tests there has been a well recognized practice in research methodology of applying objective psychological tests and correlating or comparing the findings with projective tests, if possible, but there is still a paucity of comparative data of objective and projective tests in the current literature (Katsounari and Jacobwitz, 2011). Though there are various indices and variables have been proved to be effective in ISSN-0976 9218 Indian Journal of Psychological Science, V-7, No. 1 (013-026)