Essentials of Rorschach Assessment

There is still a great deal of helpful information in this book.The information is presented in a clear and well-organized manner, which is so helpful when scoring this assessment.The RIT can be a bear to score (especially for the Ph.D. student) and I found this text immensely helpful.I would recommend this to anyone learning to score the RIT and as a reference for others who might be more familiar with the test.

Great book

In my experience, all of the "Essentials" series books are useful to a greater or lesser degree. I routinely write psychological testing reports, and have a stack of reference books nearby for quick perusal. This is NOT a book that should be used by students or professionals to comprehensively score and interpret a Rorschach; the Exner workbook is needed for that. However, this book has an excellently compiled index that allows the evaluator to quickly look up research and normative data on specific variables that stand out in a record.

Excellent resource.

Waste of money

Essentials of Rorschach Assessment, a text and reference in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment, is a welcome addition to my library and an asset to students as well as to neophyte and experienced clinical and school psychologists.

I bought this book to assist me in learning the Rorshach in a projective assessment class. The book is easy to read, and it certainly provides the reader with eye catching information boxes that help to make sense out of complicated material. However, there are some problems. First, the book is out of date: it does not refer to current research or Exner's newest comprehensive edition. An update of this book might take care of this problem. Second, at times material that could be more comprehensively laid out for the reader is neglected. This concern would require the authors to re-write sections that are overly simplified.

The main disadvantage of the book is that it does not do what it actually "promises". In order to learn the technique of scoring and interpretation you are constantly referred to Exner's books. Without any of his books on the comprehensive system the book is useless ;-( So it may be a better idea to get the "real thing" (i.e. Exner's handbooks or the workbook).A bit disappointing.