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Volume 30, Number 1 / 2009
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The Logical Axis in the Rorschach
The paradigm of complexity that rules the current conception of knowledge proposes to
observe and understand reality through multiple perspectives. This paradigm emphasizes
relations and interactions, leading us to pay special attention to transformations that take
place over time. These concepts are particularly valid when reading a subject’s
Rorschach productions, inasmuch as the goal is to make visible psychic motions, modalities
thereof, as well as the subject’s defense strategies and effectiveness. After having
analyzed the spatial, temporal, and bonding perspectives elsewhere, as well as the linguistic
resources used in responses, the author focuses in this paper on the logical axis, trying to
show subjects’ prevailing codes for attributing meaning and significance to the
realities they are seeing. An attempt is made to find out the rules constraining subjects to
see and think in a certain way, thus, determining their behavior. From this angle, the goal
lies in making plain the problems that subjects have regarding each plate-specific
configuration, the way and words they resort to when rationalizing their responses, and the
kind of solutions they reach.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Articles
- DOI 10.1027/1192-5604.30.1.48
- Authors
- Etel Schvartzapel de Kacero, Universidad del Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The Rorschach and the Body
Introduction: The Rorschach has proved to be of value in studies addressing
the mind-body relationship since it enhances the understanding of this complex relation and its
repercussions. Objective: To use some aspects of the Rorschach to explore the
mental representation of the body through the study of self-esteem in children with enuresis.
Method: The Rorschach Comprehensive System was administrated to 26 children
with enuresis and 26 children without enuresis (children of the same age and social class) and
10 selected variables were tested; the Concept of the Object Scale for assessing object
representations (ORS) was also used. Results: There is a significant
difference in the X+% and EGO, so the children with
enuresis show low self-esteem and difficulties perceiving reality. As for ORS, the children
without enuresis showed greater freedom to fantasize, to use their imagination, and to identify
their emotions and anxieties. The children with enuresis exhibited a greater tendency toward
fragmentation in the perception of the self and of others, thus, a partial object relation.
Conclusions: The Concept of the Object Scale for assessing object
representations proved to be a useful instrument to grasp the level of the child’s
psychological development. The study of the psychosomatic aspects permits an identification of
relations between the body and self-esteem.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Articles
- DOI 10.1027/1192-5604.30.1.3
- Authors
- Norma Lottenberg Semer, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
- Latife Yazigi, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
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The Use of the Defense Mechanism Test to Aid in Understanding the Personality of Senior Executives and the Implications for Their Careers
This paper describes the use of the Defense Mechanism Test as an aid in helping to assess
senior executives in four areas: for selection, development, career strategy, and crisis
intervention. The origins of this test, developed to measure the defense mechanisms used to
protect the individual from stress, are described. The paper shows how it was used to predict
the capacity of trainee fighter pilots to withstand stress and its later application to other
stressful occupations. Finally, some ideal types of the test are shown followed by four real
test profiles, two of them with their associated histories.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Articles
- DOI 10.1027/1192-5604.30.1.73
- Authors
- Olya Khaleelee, Corporate psychologist, organizational consultant, and psychotherapist in private practice, London, UK
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Exploring the Validity of Graphology with the Rorschach Test
Considered by some as a personality assessment technique, graphology is defended by its
partisans but finds little solid scientific base. Our research (N = 45)
compares the judgment of graphologists (k = 2) and 13 graphological variables
with 13 variables of the Rorschach test according to the comprehensive system. The average
reliability of graphologists’ judgments was .43. Their average validity was .05.
Sixteen correlations were significant (p < .05) between graphological
variables and Rorschach variables. Some are compatible with graphological theories. Others are
random or difficult to understand. Great caution is essential in the isolated use of graphology
as a personality assessment technique.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Articles
- DOI 10.1027/1192-5604.30.1.26
- Authors
- Benjamin Thiry, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Editorial
Editorial
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Editorial
- DOI 10.1027/1192-5604.30.1.1
- Authors
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