scholarly journals Diagnostic possibilities of three Rorschach indexes for cognitive functioning assessment

Psihologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Tamara Dzamonja-Ignjatovic ◽  
Dragana Djuric-Jocic
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Empirical Comparison ◽  
Ego Impairment Index ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Ego Impairment ◽  
Functioning Assessment

The study presents theoretical and empirical comparison of the three indexes in Rorschach Comprehensive System that were developed for psychotic functioning assessment: the Schizophrenia Index (SCZI), the Ego Impairment Index (EII) and the Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI). In spite of the conceptual and nominal differences, these indexes significantly overlap and includes common indicators. The study compared a discrimination value of these three indexes, as well as and theirs indicators and based on the obtained results, tried to formulate a new index as a composite of the best predictors.

The Collapse of Potential Space in Adolescents with Psychosomatic Disorders

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liat Appel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Potential Space ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorders ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Psychosomatic Symptoms ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Different Types

The study applies Winnicott’s (1971 ) conceptualization of potential space to explore psychosomatic phenomena as manifested in Rorschach protocols of two adolescent outpatients. This approach for understanding psychosomatic disorders is based on Ogden’s (1986 ) model for defining different forms of collapse of potential or transitional space between reality and fantasy. Following Smith (1990 ), who applies this conceptualization to Rorschach work, the study compares data related to cognitive functioning derived from the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003 ) from protocols of two adolescents with psychosomatic symptoms. The study also compares the results of a Rorschach index, the Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005 ), to detect different types of psychopathological manifestations conceptualized as forms of collapse of potential space. The results point toward substantial differences between the two protocols that are interpreted in terms of forms of collapse of potential space, demonstrating reality collapse into fantasy being revealed by one protocol and fantasy collapse into reality by the other. In conclusion, because similar psychosomatic pictures in adolescents might represent different, often apparently opposite, psychopathological states, using the Rorschach in adolescents with psychosomatic symptoms seem particularly important for revealing these states. Implications for treatment are discussed.

Selflessness in Anorexia Nervosa as Reflected in the Rorschach Comprehensive System

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gili Curiel-Levy ◽  
Laura Canetti ◽  
Esti Galili-Weisstub ◽  
Myrna Milun ◽  
Eitan Gur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Multivariate Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Group A

This study examines the expression of selflessness – the tendency to ignore one’s own needs and serve others’ needs – in Rorschach protocols of women suffering from anorexia nervosa. The protocols of 35 women suffering from anorexia nervosa were compared to 30 protocols of a psychiatric comparison group. A multivariate analysis of variance over five variables (AG, PER, PHR, COP, and GHR) was significant: Anorexic patients showed higher characteristics of selflessness compared to the psychiatric comparison group. These findings contribute to the validation of the Rorschach technique and to the clinical observation of selflessness in anorexic patients, and they emphasize specific characteristics in the treatment of anorexia nervosa patients.

A Computer Application for Calculation of the Ego Impairment Index

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1281-1282
Author(s):  
Stephen Lucente ◽  
William Fals-Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Computer Application ◽  
Ego Impairment Index ◽  
Ego Impairment

A computerized application of the Ego Impairment Index, a measure developed by Perry and Viglione in 1991 to assess functioning of the ego via Rorschach scoring variables is described.

Rorschach Comprehensive System Data for a Sample of 52 Older Adult Nonpatients From the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 89 (sup1) ◽  
pp. S166-S173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Pertchik ◽  
Thomas W. Shaffer ◽  
Philip Erdberg ◽  
David Ira Margolin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
System Data

scholarly journals Rorschach comprehensive system norms in Brazilian children from public and private schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosangela Kátia Sanches Mazzorana Ribeiro ◽  
Norma Lottenberg Semer ◽  
Latife Yazigi
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Brazilian Children

Case Formulation in Clinical Neuropsychology

2012 ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
Greg J. Lamberty ◽  
Nathaniel W. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Emotional Functioning ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Case Formulation ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Effort Assessment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Functioning Assessment

Chapter 4 discusses two epistemological trends have largely evolved over the twentieth century and which continue to underlie clinical neuropsychological case formulation today, the first of which incorporates and integrates idiographic knowledge and emphasizes how the individual is unique and distinct from the lives of others, and the second, which emphasizes nomothetic knowledge and focuses on aspects of the human experience that are ‘lawful’ or universal, regardless of the individual patient under study. It also covers case formulation by focusing on issues relevant to assessment of response validity and effort, assessment of cognitive functioning, assessment of personality and emotional functioning, and population-based case formulation.

Methodological and Epistemological Issues Raised by the Use of the Rorschach Comprehensive System in Cross-Cultural Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijé Franchi ◽  
Anne Andronikof-Sanglade
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Système Intégré

L’intérêt du Rorschach en Système Intégré pour la recherche interculturelle réside dans la possibilité qu’il offre de (a)accéder à des aspects de la structure du psychisme et du fonctionnement psychologique que des approches conventionnelles ne peuvent atteindre; (b)fournir une clé pour comprendre les données obtenues par d’autres techniques en situant ces données dans le contexte de la culture, de l’histoire personnelle et du fonctionnement psychologique global de l’individu. Outre sa pertinence pour la recherche, le Rorschach fournit une description étendue du monde de référence interne du sujet, quels que soit son origine ethnique, ses assises culturelles ou son statut socio-économique. Une telle description phénoménologique capture “l’être au monde” particulier du sujet, notamment ses modèles internes, ses habitudes de fonctionnement (tant cognitifs qu’affectifs), ses modes de relation aux autres, et les thèmes qui, résonant avec le passé du sujet, provoquent des situations de conflit et des réactions défensives actuelles. Le Rorschach facilite aussi l’étude du contexte culturel dans lequel une personne se reconstruit de manière constante et dynamique, en interaction avec les aspects favorisateurs ou inhibiteurs de la culture. Dans la tradition herméneutique, le Rorschach permet de reconstruire le monde du sens culturel appartenant à un événement, amenant l’investigateur à comprendre l’événement du point de vue de structure intrinsèque du monde dont l’événement tire son sens. Cette façon de procéder implique toutefois que le chercheur renonce à conceptualiser les aspects “déviants” d’un protocole comme indicateurs de psychopathologie pour les considérer au contraire comme une clé pour comprendre les caractéristiques fondamentales de la personnalité dans une culture donnée. Cela demande qu’on ne pense plus la culture en terme de biais qui menacent d’obscurcir la personnalité du sujet. Il faut au contraire faire porter son attention sur la richesse que les aspects culturels du fonctionnement psychique introduisent dans un protocole. Ces réflexions nous ont été suggérées par une étude pilote portant sur les aspects du fonctionnement de la personnalité qui pourraient expliquer la participation de femmes dans la pratique de l’excision. Le groupe étudié, en 1995) était composé de 17 femmes originaires d’Afrique de l’Ouest qui vivent dans la région parisienne. Le Rorschach nous a fournit des données pertinentes concernant (1) un style particulier de fonctionnement cognitif et (2) l’émergence de l’excision comme thème essentiellement culturel.

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