ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the schizophrenia spectrum and related psychotic disorders and then turn to psychotic subtypes of depression and bipolar disorder. It includes the provisional category of Attenuated Psychotic Disorder and closes with a review of clinical and research findings relevant to the Rorschach's assessment of patients with drug-induced psychoses. Rorschach manifestations within the schizophrenia spectrum have been studied far than those occurring in other forms of psychoses. Before looking at Rorschach studies, it is useful to review characteristic aspects of psychosis in schizophrenia spectrum. The finding that individuals within the schizophrenia spectrum showed peculiar language on Rorschach was supported by another study that used the TDI to assess thought disorder in psychometrically identified schizotypic individuals. The chapter examines the cognitive-psychological characteristics and Rorschach indices of paranoid thinking. It begins to review what is known about the Rorschach manifestations of these and other forms of primary psychoses. The chapter explains pioneering studies describing Rorschach characteristics of patients with mania.
