This is part of a validation study of the Brazilian Rorschach Comprehensive System location manual and form quality list, by testing it on a sample of psychiatric patients. The variables X+%, XA%, WDA%, X-% and Xu% of the patients is compared to those encountered in the Brazilian normative sample. The evaluation was conducted with 45 patients. The selection instruments were Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic (SCID-I) and The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). 23 patients met the SCID-I criteria for psychotic disorder, and 19 of them were considered psychotic by PANSS. The protocols were classified according to both the North American and Brazilian lists. ANOVA were made comparing normative samples and the group of patients. The variables XA% and X-% proved to be sensitive in detecting the perceptive nuances among the people involved. The Brazilian lists proved to be valid for distinguishing degrees of impaired perception.
Rorschach test; Psychotic disorders; Perceptual distortion; Test validity; Psychiatric patients
