ABSTRACT
Having considered in chapter 1 the nature of the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) as a measuring instrument, we can now turn our attention to basic considerations in translating Rorschach responses into conclusions about the person who gives them. These conclusions consist of descriptive statements that address structural and dynamic features of respondents’ personality functioning and contribute to diagnostic inferences, treatment recommendations, and hypotheses concerning their previous life experiences and likely future behavior in certain kinds of circumstances. The descriptive statements that examiners derive from the Rorschach are by tradition referred to as interpretations, and their derivation as the interpretive process.
