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high ability or motivation. It suggests inst,ead that even where clinicians expect to find very low Rorschach productivity, as in hospital populations, the capacity exceeds performance and hope is therefore offered that by a more appropriate structuring of the test situation, richer and more numerous responses might be elicited and the test could become more useful.
Finally, the procedure seems to offer some promise as a diagnostic tool. An examination of the Rorschach records themselves reveals that while a few of the test records of the brain injured patients are readily recognizable as such, it is difficult or impossible to distinguish the majority of cases from the normal records. The second performances, however, can be very clearly distinguished simply in terms of the number of new responses produced. Of the 20 subjects in the study, only two could not be placed in the correct group by this criterion. It appears to be much easier to correctly diagnose brain injury on the basis of the second performance on the Rorschach Test than on the first performance. The present study is, of course, only suggestive. Many more subjects of more heterogeneous types are needed before it is known whether this procedure will prove useful in actual clinical work.