The Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: a critical examination
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The Comprehensive System for the Rorschach is unreliable, despite its wide acceptance, and its validity has yet to be established. Basic issues related to the validity and interrater reliability of the Comprehensive System needs to be resolved, and there are not published studies on the system to justify its widespread acceptance. Field studies of the administration, scoring and recording practices of psychologists are necessary to validate the Comprehensive System. Existing empirical evidence for the validity of indices that directly influence clinical decision making is negligible.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1996
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Thinking critically about the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: a reply to Exner
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John E. Exner has inadequately calculated the percentage of agreement for Rorschach in his defense of the Comprehensive System. The reliability figures should be computed for the total number of responses in a protocol and not for a single response. Contrary to his claim that only 4 scores were selected in a study pointing out the weaknesses of the system, 8 scores of validity were used. Finally, there is misunderstanding regarding the number of articles published.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1996
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The reliability of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: A comment on Meyer (1997)
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The fundamental problems with the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach (CS) have been identified, and it was hoped that proponents of the CS would respond constructively. However a critique by Meyer (1997) dismisses the criticism of CS reliability by misrepresenting what was actually stated, presenting a faltering meta-analysis that does not address questions raised.
Publication Name: Psychological Assessment
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1040-3590
Year: 1997
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