by Carl-Erik Mattlar
Prologue
Motto: Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt, Discordia Maximae Dilabuntur
When one tries to understand a situation at any specific point of time it is sometimes helpful, and sometimes necessary, to study how the situation developed over a number of years. For me, it is a natural way of looking at the emergence of what is currently being called R-PAS. My first love at the university was world history, and I earned a major in this subject before going into psychology.
Continue readingAnthony D. Sciara, PhD, ABPP Published: August 24, 2010 In 1966 Weiner, Exner and Sciara published an article “Is the Rorschach Welcome in the Courtroom?” [1] The article reported on a survey of almost 8000 federal and state court cases in which psychologists presented Rorschach testimony. That survey revealed in only six cases was the [...]
Continue readingby Anthony D. Sciara, Ph.D., ABPP and Barry Ritzler, Ph.D., ABPP Published: December 9, 2009 The Rorschach Comprehensive System as developed by John E. Exner, Jr., Ph.D. has been the predominant system in use for administration, coding and interpretation of the Rorschach since shortly after its inception in 1974. Dr. Exner died in 2006 leaving [...]
Continue readingBarry Ritzler and Anthony Sciara In December, 2007, a supplement to the Journal of Personality Assessment was published with the stated purpose of “…provid(ing) CS users with a compendium of country-specific or locale-specific norms…” (Meyer, Erdberg, & Shaffer, 2007, p S201). Even though this statement indicates the motivation behind the Supplement was to establish a [...]
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