ABSTRACT
Trends in the Rorschach assessment of disordered thinking have mirrored broader psychiatric trends in the diagnostic conceptualizing of thought disorder. Like their psychiatric counterparts, early Rorschach contributors did not consider thought disorder separately from schizophrenia. Much as early theorists viewed disordered thinking as a unitary and pathognomonic symptom of schizophrenia, pioneers in the field of Rorschach testing focused exclusively on the test’s ability to identify diagnostic signs of schizophrenia. Only after the concept of thought disorder was liberated from schizophrenia, did Rorschach researchers turn their interest to using the instrument to identify different forms of disordered thinking in a variety of psychopathological conditions.
