Psychopathology

Abstract

THis investigation substantiates Rorschach's statement that colour-form answers measure affective instability, and primary-colour responses impulsiveness, usually pathological impulsiveness. The kinesthetic and colour-answers together show the subject's type, his capacity for affective adaptation, for emotional stability and instability-in general, the balance of his emotional life. That the Rorschach test does give a good working knowledge of the subject's temperament as a whole is not doubted by anyone who has used the test. The qualitative aspect is even more important than the quantitative, as often the content of an abnormal subject's answers is full of their symptomatic tendencies shown both overtly and symbolically. It is claimed that the colourand kinaesthetic responses are dependent on the unconscious for their content. These results and those of other investigators suggest that this panoramic view of the subject's temperament as a whole is an advance on the method of measuring temperament and intelligence separately.