A psychological study of peptic ulcer patients

The Use of Projective Techniques in the Investigation of Emotional Aspects of General Medical Disorders: I. The Rorschach Method

“…Altogether there is a great need for careful correlation between Rorschach data and the clinical data on the same patients. These relations can be studied in terms of the subclassifications of patients according to their psychological test performance (see Kepecs et al, 1951;Marquis et al, 1951;Rabin and Kepecs, 1951) and groupings based on clinical differences within a certain disease entity. Some of the studies in which the Rorschach findings are substantiated by the results of other projective techniques to be mentioned in Part I1 of this report, e.g., (Fine, 1948;Marquis et al, 1951;Prince, 1949;Seward et al, 1951) have relatively more validity especially when the findings for each test are given independent statistical treatment and interpretation.…”

The validity of the Blacky Pictures.

“…The formulation of these two patterns, based upon a limited number of cases, was presented in the form of a suggestion for the direction of additional research in the area of peptic ulcer dynamics. Differences between the two subgroups on other psychological tests are reported in a paper by Marquis, Sinnett, and Winter (7).…”

A Critical Review on Using the Rorschach Method in Somatic Illnesses

“…This calls into question many of the validation studies, in particular in the health field, since the correlation with interpersonal dependency may perhaps be caused solely to the "dependency" part of the ROD. Another criticism relates specifically to the use of this measure in the health field: Since studies that employ the ROD are retrospective (Marquis, Sinnett, & Winter, 1952;Rothstein & Cohen, 1958), it is quite possible that the high level of dependency is a result of the impact of the disorder and its consequences in terms of the care provided (hospitalization, patient's behavior; see Bornstein, 2000).…”