ABSTRACT

When David Rapaport taught me how to use the Rorschach, as part of a set of tests used in psychodiagnosis, he stressed from the beginning the need to form interpretations on a theory-based psychological understanding of how the responses come into being. It was simple enough: All behavior is caused by many aspects of the behaving person’s personality, from biology to life situation and cultural embeddedness. Reading the implied equations backwards therefore yielded interpretation.