The Brave New World of Forensic Rorschach Assessment: Comments on the Rorschach Special Section

摘要

It is a rare opportunity to be able to comment on four articles written by four leading personality assessment researchers and scholars focusing on the cutting edge developments in the science and practice of Rorschach assessment. We will first address Meyer & Eblin’s article that provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS; Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erard, & Erdberg, 2011). We will then address Erard’s article that focuses on the application of R-PAS in forensic psychology and makes a compelling argument about the admissibility of the RPAS under both the Frye and Daubert Standards.We will then comment on Viglione, Towns, and Dawn’s article that discusses the unique contribution of the Rorschach method in the assessment of psychological trauma.We conclude by commenting on Mihura’s article in which she convincingly argues for the advantage of incorporating a performance-based measure of personality to the self-report method of assessment in clinical and forensic psychological evaluations. We will focus our comments on issues related to forensic psychological evaluation and to personal injury assessment in particular.