Determinant shift of psychoneurotic and psychotic patients

A new dimension of the Rorschach, called "the determinant shift from free association to the inquiry," was applied to psychotics and neurotics. The following hypotheses were tested and confirmed: (1) Neurotics show greater shift from free association to inquiry than psychotics. (2) Neurotics show greater shift on variables indicative of anxiety. The Determinant Shift score also revealed differences between the two groups that the "classical" scoring method tended to obscure.