Synopsis
From its very inception, Hermann Rorschach's test has had the initially startling feature of eliciting clear and unmistakable evidence of disordered thinking in certain patients. Indeed, for many clinicians a central virtue of Rorschach assessment lies in its very ability to uncover and clarify underlying psychotic and psychotic-like mental processes. In "Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach", a comprehensive synthesis of existing research and theory, James Kleiger provides a thoroughly up-to-date text that covers the entire range of clinical and diagnostic issues associated with the phenomenon of disordered thinking as revealed on the Rorschach. Beginning with the pioneering contributions of Rorschach himself, Kleiger guides the reader through the history of psychiatric and psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the nature and significance of different kinds of disordered thinking and their relevance to understanding personality structure and differential diagnosis. He then moves on to thorough reviews of the respective contributions of David Rapaport, Robert Holt, Philip Holzman and John Exner in conceptualization and scoring of disordered thinking.
These synopses are followed by an examination of less well known research conceptualizations, which, taken together, help clarify the basic interpretive conundrums besetting the major systems. Finally Kleiger enters into a detailed analysis of the phenomenological and psychodynamic aspects of disordered thinking per se.
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