Abstract
This symposium was originally designed by the President of the Congress, Prof. Shigeo Takahashi, who himself is one of the most prominent Rorschach researchers in Japan.
Three speakers were chosen in order to show their different approaches to the children's Rorschach technique. Michiko Iida presented her research on school phobia with the Rorschach method. According to their Rorschach responses, school phobia cases were divided into five groups. Children who showed rather rich results even though they were marked with neurotic tendencies were good at psychotherapeutic prognosis. Whereas those who showed constricted results were bad in their prognosis. Nobuko Ochi presented her longitudinal study of Rorschach with children. She gave the test to 16 subjects once a year for 11 years continuously. She found that, among other things, there was a dramatical change in the Rorschach responses when the children were in fifth grade of primary school, and the children is strong concern to “face” response when they were in middle school.
Makiko Ozawa was supposed to present her research on the developmental change in the child Rorschach responses from a theoretical point of view. However, she could not attend to the symposium because of sudden illness
Kenzo Sorai and Fujio Tanaka, as the discussants, greatly helped the discussion on methodological, clinical and developmental points of view.
