In this study, the semantic clustering of 10 popular and near-popular Rorschach percepts and four personal concepts was determined, for a patient group as a whole (N = 20) and for the first 10 individual patients within the group. Ss scaled the percepts and concepts on an adaptation of Osgood's semantic differential. It was found that the percepts and concepts formed clusters of semantically equivalent members. While the total group did not demonstrate semantic overlap between personal concepts and selected Rorschach percepts, the individual patients did so to varying degress and along varying lines. In this respect, as well as in the general organization of percept and concept clusters, there was much individual variability. This study emphasized the Rorschach percept as an idiosyncratic expression of personal meaning rather than of invariant symbolism. Other implications of this study for content analysis of the Rorschach were considered.
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