Rorschach and Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Strange bedfellows, or a perfect match?

In the age of empiricism in clinical psychology, many clinicians are reluctant, at best, to use projective techniques such as the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) as part of their assess-ment toolkit. At first blush, it almost seems antithetical that cognitive-behavioral psychologists should find the Rorschach to be useful. Yet to discredit the contributions to the art and science of personality assessment that have been made by the RIM, and reject its continued utility for even the most devoted cognitive-behavioral psychologists is suggestive of distorted thinking of the first magnitude, hallmarked by cognitive errors of all-or-nothing thinking, minimization, and discounting the positive, to name just a few.