Revising the Rorschach Ego Impairment Index to Accommodate Recent Recommendations About Improving Rorschach Validity

International Journal of Testing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-364

  Viglione, Donald J ^a   Perry, William ^b   Giromini, Luciano ^c   Meyer, Gregory J ^d  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; Ego Impairment Index; R PAS; Rorschach; schizophrenia; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859300090     PISSN: 15305058     EISSN: 15327574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15305058.2011.589019     Document Type: Article

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