Abstract

For anyone with a psychoanalytically oriented approach, understanding the meaning of a Rorschach protocol constitutes a real challenge: How can we counterbalance the empirical approach of the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003), with its predominantly empirical focus, by assigning more importance to theoretical psychoanalytic thinking? Many authors, including Exner (1992) and Weiner (2000), have written about the need to employ personality constructs as a conceptual bridge between empirically based CS data, once they have been generated, and clinical inferences.