ABSTRACT
As stated in chapter 2, sequence analysis consists of examining conjointly the structural, thematic, and behavioral features of Rorschach responses and noting the succession in which these response characteristics occurs. Sequence analysis has long been recognized as the only adequate way of integrating all of thedata providedby aRorschach examination into a cohesive interpretation of the findings. Surprisingly little attention has been paid in the literature to systematic procedures for conducting a sequence analysis, however. Brief discussions in books by Klopfer, Ainsworth, Klopfer, and Holt (1954, chap. 11), Lerner (1991, chap. 9), Phillips and Smith (1953, chap. 9), and Schafer (1954, chap. 6) constitute most of what has been available for Rorschach examiners to read on this subject. Clinicians attempting to illustrate sequence analysis in published or presented case studies have in most instancesmerely begunwith the first response to Card I and generated interpretive hypotheses while reading through the rest of the responses in order.
