The Uniuersiry of Cincinnati PURPOSE HE studies which form the content of this report were made for the general T purpose of ascertaining the analytic character of the Rorschach Ink Blot Test. Responses to the Ink Blots were secured from 43 psychotics of diagnosed paranoid trend and 5 2 college students. The college students were also given the Bernreuter Personality Schedule and their answers scored according to "neurotic tendency" and "introversion-extraversion." These personality traits were correlated with the Rorschach indices of similar traits. For one study the responses to the Rorschach Ink Blots were scored and analyzed for the specific purpose of discovering a trait or series of traits commonly characteristic of the psychotics and not characteristic of the college students. The second study was made for the purpose of establishing directions of interpretation for the Rorschach indices of emotional stability and introversion-extraversion. SUBJECTS Psychotics:The psychotic group consisted of 43 subjects, 31 women and 1 2 men. The group ranged in age from 19 to 68 years; over half of them fell between 20 and 5 0 years of age. They were for the most part patients a t the Longview State Hospital, but a few were obtained a t the Cincinnati General Hospital. The majority of the group had been diagnosed as a psychosis of a paranoid condition and as schizophrenia with a paranoid trend. The group also included a few cases of the manic-depressive psychosis and of the organic psychoses. The patients in these latter categories were definitely diagnosed as possessing paranoid tendencies.College Sjudents: The college students included 38 women and 14 men, a total of 5 2 people. They were students in the University of Cincinnati. Most of them were undergraduates, a few were graduate students. They ranged in age from 19 to 27 years. METHODThe method of administering and scoring the Bernreuter Persohality ScheduleThe method of administering the Rorschach Test was to seat the subject in a is well known and needs no description.

BETTY January 1949 with the presenting symptoms of petit ma1 epilepsy and enuresis. She was first referred to Central Clinic for psychiatric study in March 1947, a t the age of 53, with symptoms of extreme stubbornness, destructive behavior, vomiting, soiling, and diurnal and nocturnal enuresis. Practically nothing was known of her early developmental history except that she had always been enuretic. She was the tenth in a family of twelve children. As an infant she was hospitalized several times for enteritis and bronchitis.Her past history revealed that she had two foster home placements, the first beginning a t the age of three years and ten months, when the mother deserted the family. In her own home there were extreme physical neglect and deprivation , evictions for poor housekeeping, several desertions by an immature, unstable and alcoholic father, and finally complete rejection by a promiscuous mother. At the time of commitment of the twelve children to a children's agency, in March 1945, all those of school age had problems of truancy and enuresis. Since then the mother has had two more children. On several occasions she has visited the agency, where she inquires only about her sons, several of whom have been placed in an institution for delinquent boys. Many of the younger children are reported to have made good adjustments in foster or adoptive homes.During the first foster home placement of seventeen months, Betty was "the most difficult child" because of her extreme negativism and constant crying. Following a psychiatric study when she was four years and ten months old, it was recommended that she return to the same foster home in order to avoid further threats to her security and because she had a good relationship with a foster boy whom she enjoyed "mothering." With a continuation of her problems she was finally placed-for a while as an only child, and later with an older siste-in a second foster home for seven months until the time of the first Central Clinic referral.

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Professional nurses provide therapeutic care for emotionally disturbed children at the Child Guidance Home, Cincinnati, Ohio. In‐service training and supervision from her own discipline offer the nurse support and develop her capabilities for collaboration with the treatment team. In a master's degree program in child psychiatric nursing at the College of Nursing and Health, University of Cincinnati, the residential treatment center is the principal field area for learning skills in therapeutic care of individuals and groups of emotionally disturbed children.