Relationship between diagnostic category and deviant verbalizations on the Rorschach.

Abstract

Five groups representing a "rough continuum of 'schizophrenic' disorganization" in terms of deviant responses, socially adjusted subjects, anxiety neurotics, "latent" schizophrenics, paranoid schizophrenics, and catatonic schizophrenics were studied. Using the delta scores developed by Watkins and Stauffacher it was possible to assign a weighting to each deviant response and obtain significant correlations for each of the diagnostic groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)