I make no apology for returning to the subject of Peter Gay's biography
of Freud to cite one of the more egregious of the many misleading sections
in its pages, one that reveals more than most its deeply flawed essence.
These comments are especially for the benefit of TIPSters giving
introductory
My understanding is that Rorschach did indeed select cards that seemed to do a
decent job of distinguishing schizophrenic (or perhaps more broadly psychotic)
individuals from non-schizophrenic individuals. So Christopher Green is
correct that at least some of Rorschach stimuli were selected
Oh, my gosh. What a difference the omission of a single word makes, even
it it consists of only two letters. In my comments on 24 October about
Gay's failure to inform readers about the serious confabulations Freud
perpetrated in his Rat Man case history I wrote the following sentence:
It would be