Projective measures of personality and psychopathology: how well do they work?

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: Lilienfeld, Scott O. | Copyright information

Many of the projective tests being used for psychoanalytic purposes have been proven to be without a measure of validity. The Rorschach Inkblot Test is one of the most popular projective techniques. It was developed during the Second World War as a way of analyzing the psychosis level of returning war veterans. This test has been known to be inferior in the prediction of schizophrenia diagnoses. Among the known projective techniques that have been proven to be consistently valid are Rosenzwei...

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