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Psychosomatic Medicine 3:370-388 (1941)
© 1941 American Psychosomatic Society

The Relation of the Rorschach Color Response to the use of Color in Drawings

JURGEN RUESCH M.D.1 and JACOB E. FINESINGER M.D.2

1 Department of Diseases of the Nervous System of the Harvard Medical School, and the Psychiatric Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Department of Diseases of the Nervous System of the Harvard Medical School, and the Psychiatric Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts

A method is presented for the analysis and scoring of drawings.

The results of the analysis and scoring of drawings were compared with the analysis of the color responses obtained on administering the Rorschach test to a series of 55 psychiatric and neurological patients and 5 normal control subjects.

High color scores in the drawings (Series J) correlated with high values for the number of color responses in the Rorschach test.

Individuals with high color scores in the drawings and a large number of color responses in the Rorschach test made use of large areas in the colored drawings (Series J) and small areas in the pencil drawings (Series S). This correlation held especially for the feebleminded group.

Individuals of the extratensive type of Rorschach used much larger areas in the color drawings than did individuals of the introversive type of Rorschach. Individuals of the former type showed a ratio of 2:1 on comparing the area of the color drawings with the area of pencil drawings. Individuals of the introversive type had a ratio approximately 1:1 for the same comparison.

Subjects with a normal ratio of W: (D+Dd) in the Rorschach test use small areas in the color drawings and show no striking differences between the areas of color and pencil drawings, whereas subjects with an extreme ratio of W:Wd used larger areas in the color drawings and showed striking differences between the areas of color and pencil drawings.

High color scores in the drawings and a high number of color responses in the Rorschach test correlate with high values for the use and selection of red.

Red and yellow are used most frequently in the drawings. Violet and white are rarely used. Feeble-minded individuals use red more frequently than do the other subjects.

In the Rorschach test the responses to red are twice as frequent as responses to other colors. Feeble-minded patients respond more frequently to red than do the other cases.

Subjects giving a high number of color responses in the Rorschach test have a greater selectivity for red whereas subjects giving a low number of color responses in the Rorschach test tend to select gray.

Subjects belonging to the introversive type of Rorschach have a high selectivity for gray.






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