The Rorschach Inkblot Method in Organic Disturbances of the Central Nervous System

Piotrowski, Zygmunt A.

doi:10.1097/00005053-193711000-00002

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“…The criteria for scoring each of the signs as present or absent were those described by Klopfer (1) and Piottowski (2,3,4). No effort was made to select only specific types of brain damage which might have been expected to yield even more satisfactory results.…”

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Rorschach Signs for the Diagnosis of Organic Pathology

Hughes

1948

Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Technique

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Rorschach Signs for the Diagnosis of Organic Pathology

Hughes

1948

Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Technique

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“…Many of these records still contain no adequately formed whole responses. Perseveration may still exist as well as the qualitative behavior which Piotrowski (13) has designated as "impotence" and "perplexity," but this is behavior manifested generally by the subject and is by no means exclusively a "Rorschach sign. "…”

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The Rorschach Description of Immediate Post‐convulsive Mental Function

Stainbrook

1944

Journal of Personality

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“…Heightened response to colour on the Rorschach test (Piotrowski, 1937) and the decreased Necker Cube reversal rate (Meldman, 1965) have been associated with brain damage. It is of interest that impairments in those psychological tests were primarily associated with lesions outside the limits of the centrum medianum nucleus.…”

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Psychological changes correlated with thalamotomy site

Jurko

Andy

1973

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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SUMMARY The effects of surgically placed thalamic lesions on cognitive skills, as measured by psychological tests, are dependent upon the nature of the skill and the site of the lesion. Lesions within the limits of the centrum medianum nucleus produce few deficits, whereas lesions outside its limits result in deficits for a greater number of skills. In general, the more complex skills revealed more impairment and the deficits were long lasting.The function of the thalamus in relation to cognition, as reflected by psychological tests, was evaluated in patients treated by thalamotomy for Parkinsonism, seizure, and pain disorders.The psychological tests are considered under four categories and correlated with lesions placed within and outside the limits of the centrum medianum nucleus. The age of patients with Parkinson's disease ranged from 37 to 72 years and those with seizure and pain disorders from 20 to 62 years. METHOD SURGICAL PROCEDURE Lytic lesions were made stereotaxically under local anaesthesia. A 20 gauge barrel electrode with a 3 to 4 mm non-insulated tip was inserted into the diencephalon through a frontal burr hole at an angle of approximately 40 to 45°. Electrical stimulation followed by an electrolytic lesion was performed as previously described (Andy, Jurko, and Sias, 1963;Andy, 1966 TEST RESULTS AND LESION SITE The data were analysed by plotting results derived from each of the tests in relation to the locus of the lesion. Scattergrams were used for plotting the lesions on horizontal planes through the thalamus at the level of the centrum medianum nucleus (+ 3-5 mm). This plane was chosen because the maximum size of the lesion was at that approximate location of the thalamus, and the greater variability in these patients was in relation to the mediolateral and frontoposterior positioning of the lesion. The statistics used, where applicable, were the 2 x 2 x2 test, and the two-tailed binomial expansion test. RESULTS

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The Rorschach Inkblot Method in Organic Disturbances of the Central Nervous System

Cited by 138 publications

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Rorschach Signs for the Diagnosis of Organic Pathology

Rorschach Signs for the Diagnosis of Organic Pathology

The Rorschach Description of Immediate Post‐convulsive Mental Function

Psychological changes correlated with thalamotomy site

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