ABSTRACT
The current popularity of the Rorschach method for personality assessment in the United States has been explained by the extensive use of the Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS; Exner, 1991, 1993; Exner & Weiner, 1995), which provides more empirical support to interpretation than was available through earlier Rorschach systems (Butcher & Rouse, 1996). Although the RCS is based on empirical and clinical data from a predominantly middle-class Euro-American population, it is being used with individuals who might be significantly different in terms of their culture. On the one hand, the RCS is applied to persons from a variety of ethnocultural groups within the United States and Canada. On the other hand, it has become increasingly popular worldwide, particularly in Europe and South America. This cross-cultural/multicultural expansion requires consideration of the system’s validity and usefulness for personality assessment and clinical diagnosis across different nations as well as with culturally different clients, who in addition might live in radically diverse socioeconomic environments within the United States and other multicultural societies.
