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AbstractPrevious communications have indicated that interpretations of Rorschach protocols resultant from testing the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation produce information which conforms closely to that obtained by standard anthropological and psychoanalytic investigative techniques.Anthropologic and psychoanalytic observations demonstrate that the effects of acculturation are less disruptive to the personality organization of old-age than of middle-age and young-age Mescalero and Chiracahua Apaches. In the present communication, a comparison is made of Rorschach protocols derived from testing of those three-age groups. The interpretation of those protocols confirms the assumptions based on the anthropological and psychoanalytic observations.

AbstractRorschach movement responses were evaluated before and after conditions of sensory depreviation of motor inhibition. 72 college students were provided with the same standard stimuli consisting of Rorschach cards under two experimental and one normal condition. It was hypothesized that movement responses would be increased by the experimental situations and this is generally the case. Analyses of variance indicated significant differences among the treatments. All three kinds of movement responses were found to increase after sensory isolation but only M and FM responses were increased by motor inhibition. Theoretical significance of these findings was discussed.

SummaryPsychoanalytical oriented interviews and quantitative Rorschach findings were used to investigate personality structure of the Mescalero Indian Reservation Apache. From 250 Rorschachs, 72 protocols were divided into three groups: (1) a control group of 52 Apaches, 50 years and over; (2) 12 shamans, defined as native medicine men arrogating to themselves supernatural powers and accorded shamanistic status by their culture mates; and (3) 7 pseudoshamans, claiming to possess power but not believed by societal co-members or accorded the position of shaman but denying power-possession. The shamans possessed more hysterical features than the pseudoshamans, were mentally able to approach ambiguous material similarly to the control group, showed a high degree of reality testing potential, keener awareness of peculiarities, more theoretical interest, and the capacity to regress in the ego's service. The pseudoshamans possessed neither the prominent shaman characteristics nor hysterical features; they appeared to be impoverished personalities floating between the shaman and Apache norm groups.

SummaryAboriginally probably equivalent, following divergent acculturative patterns, the perceptual and cognitive techniques of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches differed. Today, half of Apache children (the learners) adjust to ordinary expectations in grammar school: their Rorschach patterns resemble those of aged Chiricahuas; half (the nonlearners) fail to adjust: their responses are those of the less-acculturated Mescaleros:It was hypothesized that the learners would have identified with the techniques of the more-acculturated Chiricahuas. Adults influential in the early lives of the children were tested. The hypothesis as stated was not verified. What was consistent in the responses of learner influentials was a more balanced approach to Rorschach stimuli than was shown by nonlearner influentials.

AbstractWhile the Mescalero and Chiricahua Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation aboriginally probably had very similar if not identical patterns of cognition and perception, present day aged members of those tribes have strikingly different patterns, demonstrable by clinical behavior and Rorschach responses. While in kindergarten, about half of the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren of those aged Mescaleros and Chiricahuas are unable to adjust themselves to the expectations of school teachers and are retained for a second year of kindergarten. Those children, here designated as nonlearners, are found to respond to Rorschach stimuli as do the aged Mescaleros with a high degree of statistical reliability.