ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses current evidence concerning the Rorschach Inkblot Test relevant to forensic practice. We present a selective overview of research findings and some new data to help explicate the scientific and empirical foundations of the test. The focus is primarily on psychometric issues of reliability, validity, normative reference values, and utility. Even when limiting ourselves to these topics, we are selective because it is not possible to address them comprehensively within a single chapter. We focus on topics of most interest in the forensic arena and that have attracted the most research and controversy lately.1 There is no attempt to select research that supports or does not support the test, but rather a bias for selecting recent versus older and well-known and established evidence.
