Abstract

This chapter presents both idiographic and nomothetic data describing patterns of responses from the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) for a group of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). We begin by briefly reviewing an object representational approach to children’s Rorschach performance and then shift to a description of the nature and consequences of ADHD in young children. We then describe a recent study that examines the quality of Rorschach object representational paradigms in children with this disorder. We conclude with two case illustrations of children with ADHD that both amplify the nomothetic findings and suggest a possible prototype for how young children with ADHD may present on the Rorschach and why.