{"product_id":"whats-wrong-with-the-rorschach-isbn-9781118087121","title":"What's Wrong With The Rorschach","description":"Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschach inkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popular culture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year, the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illness across a wide range of circumstances: child custody disputes, educational placement decisions, employment and termination proceedings, parole determinations, and even investigations of child abuse allegations. The test's enormous power shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people -- often without their knowledge. In the 1970s, this notoriously subjective test was supposedly systematized and improved. But is the Rorschach more than a modern variant on tea leaf reading?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's Wrong With the Rorschach? challenges the validity and utility of the Rorschach and explains why psychologists continue to judge people by their reactions to ink blots, in spite of a half century of largely negative scientific evidence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's Wrong With the Rorschach? offers a provocative critique of one of the most widely applied and influential - and still intensely controversial - psychological tests in the world today. Surveying more than fifty years of clinical and scholarly research, the authors provide compelling scientific evidence that the Rorschach has relatively little value for diagnosing mental illness, assessing personality, predicting behavior, or uncovering sexual abuse or other trauma. In this highly engaging, novelistic account of the Rorschach's origins and history, the authors detail the wealth of scientific evidence that the test is of questionable utility for real-world decision making.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's Wrong With the Rorschach? presents a powerfully reasoned case against using the test in the courtroom or consulting room - and reveals the strong psychological, economic, and political forces that continue to support the Rorschach despite the research that has exposed its shortcomings and dangers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e James M. Wood (El Paso, TX) is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, at the University of Texas at El Paso.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e M. Teresa Nezworski (Dallas, TX) is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Dallas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Scott O. Lilienfeld (Atlanta, GA) is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Howard N. Garb (Pittsburgh, PA) is on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Studying the Clinician: Judgement Research and Psychological Assessment.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Psychological X-Ray: The Power of the Rorschach 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Test is Born: Origins of the Rorschach Inkblot Technique 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Rorschach Come to America 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Rorschach Rules! 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Many-Portaled Quandary: Balkanization of the Rorschach 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Scientists Look at the Rorschach 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Rorschach in Crisis 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 New Life for the Rorschach: John E. Exner’s Comprehensive System 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Unraveling of the Comprehensive System 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Still Waiting for the Messiah: The Future of the Rorschach 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Clinging to the Wreck: Why Some Psychologists Won’t let Go 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Objection, your Honor! Keeping the Rorschach out of Court 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Will the Rorschach go on Forever? 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Graphs on Psychometrics and the Rorschach 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 423\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJames M. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Teresa Nezworsk\u003c\/b\u003ei is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Dallas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott O. Lilienfeld\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward N. Garb\u003c\/b\u003e is clinical associate professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990475718885,"sku":"NP9781118087121","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118087121.jpg?v=1761787977","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/whats-wrong-with-the-rorschach-isbn-9781118087121","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}