Editorial

Abstract

This issue includes four articles. The first article is an empirical research study using the Rorschach Test to examine the effect of thought suppression on cigarette dependence. It is followed by the results of a survey on the use of the Rorschach and other projective methods with Swiss psychologists and by two case studies.In their research, Ales and colleagues (2024, this issue) applied the Rorschach Test in a laboratory study to test the hypothesis that the more effective participants' repression is, the less prone they will be to smoke cigarettes. After all, cigarettes can serve as a (maladaptive) strategy to cope with negative emotions, which resurface more as repression fails. The study offers an interesting set of findings, but two of them stood out for me: (1) There are basically no differences between the Rorschach protocols of smokers and nonsmokers (with m being more elevated among nonsmokers!), but (2) failures of thought suppression are mapped very well by the Rorschach Test. The authors used the R-PAS for the administration and coding of the protocols, assuming the R-PAS stance that the Rorschach measures psychological behaviors. To me, these results are very interesting in light of the question, "What is the nature of the Rorschach Test?" (Andronikof, 2023;