| The Rorschach Inkblot Test is a complex psychological assessment instrument that came into existence nearly a century ago. Since its inception in 1921, the test has been through numerous phases of development, scrutiny, and praise. The Comprehensive System (Exner, 2003) became the primary scoring and interpretive system to be used since the 1970s, and established itself as the dominant Rorschach system within the field of psychological assessment. The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erard, & Erdberg, 2011) was formed, in part, to address growing concerns about the Rorschach's scientific validity within the field of psychology and to build off of proposed limitations within the Comprehensive System. The author of this text explores the validity, reliability, and controversial issues of both systems, and what each could mean for the ongoing usage, development, and pedagogy of the Rorschach Inkblot Test. |
