ABSTRACT
The Rorschach Comprehensive System developed by Exner (Exner, 1991; Exner, 2003; Exner & Weiner, 1995) rests on the three pillars of standardized administration, objective and reliable coding, and a representative normative database. As noted in chapter 1, the systematic objectivity introduced into Rorschach testing by Exner (1974), following over 50 years of highly variegated and often chaotic utilization of the instrument, made it possible for cumulative research to demonstrate the psychometric soundness of the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM). In addition to expanding productive utilization of the RIM in empirical studies, the advent of the Comprehensive System allowed Rorschach assessors to formulate clinical conclusions with more confidence than was previously possible and to communicate these conclusions with greater effect (Weiner, 1997a, 1998c).
