The IRAOS is a semi-structured interview originally developed for the assessment of the onset and course of schizophrenia. The current, second version has been extended to encompass all psychotic disorders (affective and non-affective). It is fully compatible with the first version and has been supp…

The PAS is the first ever scale for assessing the severity of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia. Compatible with both DSM-IV and ICD-10 classifications, and available in both self-related and observer-related versions, the PAS was specially developed for monitoring the efficacy of both drug…

When the ink blots that Hermann Rorschach designed and created were first printed, he and his publisher Verlag Hans Huber – now known as Hogrefe Publishing - developed special printing processes and techniques to achieve the precise colours and shades he had conceived. Right up until the present day…

Um 1911 begann Hermann Rorschach mit der Entwicklung seines auf der Deutung von symmetrischen Klecks-Gebilden beruhenden projektiven Verfahrens. Er bezeichnete das Verfahren als wahrnehmungsdiagnostisches Experiment: Vorhandene Erinnerungsbilder werden vom Probanden an rezente Empfindungskomplexe ge…

Now in its 9th edition, the AMDP System is a widely used tool for documenting psychiatric symptoms in clinical and research projects. It is an essential part of many internal clinical documentation systems, and a valuable instrument for training in the identification of psychopathological symptoms.T…