ABSTRACT
The Comprehensive System developed by Exner (J. E. Exner, 1991, 1993; J. E. Exner & Weiner, 1995) is a psychometrically sound and interpretively rich approach to Rorschach assessment that takes time to master but repays many times over an investment in doing so. Those who teach the Comprehensive System should prepare their students for both the pain and the gain that await them. Teachers can also help to focus and sustain their students’ commitment to learning this Rorschach approach by informing them of how and why the Comprehensive System originated, what purposes it serves, the way in which it generates both empirically and conceptually based interpretations, and the directions it is likely to take in the future.
