Counseling Psychology
Borderline Personality and the Rorschach Test
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1981
Publisher
JAMA
Abstract
Rorschach responses of borderline persons, acute and chronic schizophrenics, normals, and neurotics were compared on summary, composite, and fabulized combination scores and on a score reflecting decline in the quality of responses to individual cards. The groups' summary scores were as ego function theory would predict; normals had the highest scores, followed by neurotics, borderline persons, acute schizophrenics, and chronic schizophrenics. In a three-group comparison, discriminant-function analysis correctly classified most of the borderline and acute and chronic schizophrenic subjects. In a two-group comparison, stepwise regression analysis correctly classified most of the borderline and acute schizophrenic subjects. The borderline persons tended to produce more fabulized combination responses and show a greater decline in response quality on each card. The associative drift and sporadic reasoning problems imputed to borderline persons clinically distionguished the borderline sample's Rorschach records.
Recommended Citation
Singer, M. T., & Larson, D. G. (1981). Borderline personality and the Rorschach test. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 693 698. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780310093010