ABSTRACT
Lindner (1943) pioneered the use of the Rorschach (Rorschach, 1942) with antisocial and psychopathic personalities. Along with others (i.e., Samuel Beck), Lindner believed that the Rorschach might prove uniquely useful in understanding these disorders. He hypothesized that at least one group of psychopaths produced recognizable, and to a degree unmistakable, Rorschach protocols, characterized by superficiality, avoidance, explosiveness, incompleteness, and egocentricity. Lindner’s attempts to test his beliefs were frustrated, due primarily to difficulties assessing psychopathy and the state of Rorschach technology (in the 1940s and 1950s). Lindner’s untimely death on February 27, 1956, at age 41, deprived the psychological community of a first-rate researcher and prevented him from fully testing his clinical observations.
