The Holtzman Inkblot Technique fra Klinisk Synsvinkel

Abstract

SUMMARYThe Holtzman Inkblot Technique is reviewed from the clinical point of view on the basis of published literature and personal experience with 50 form A protocols collected in connection with psychological examinations in a psychiatric hospital. The HIT has certain disadvantages in clinical administration, due to its length and the restriction of responses to one per card. These disadvantages have to be weighed against its good psychometric qualities, which make for greater safety in clinical work and superiority as a research tool. Compared with the Rorschach test, the HIT was found to discriminate better between chronic and acute cases, partly because of the potency of some of the variables as they are used by Holtzman.Instructions for the clinical use of the HIT are not yet available and the published norms do not have the meaningfulness of norms in intelligence testing. Still, experienced Rorschach workers however may find the test useful, if they collect their own reference cases, and work with ...

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