ABSTRACT
In ego-psychological explanations of stages in early Rorschach performance, two of the three basic factors in the Rorschach equation, the test and the examiner, are constants. It is assumed that the Rorschach task is more or less the same for subjects at each stage and that all subjects are approached in sufficiently similar ways that protocols are not influenced unduly by the behavior of the examiner. Differences in test performance in each of the three stages are thus attributed to changes in the third factor, the subject.
