Educational psychologist and licenced primary school teacher. He was a founding member of the Comprehensive System International Rorschach Association (CSIRA). He created the open-source software CHESSSS and defended his dissertation on the psychometric approach to the Rorschach Test. He taught clinical psychology at the Universities of Paris West Nanterre and Reims Champagne Ardennes. He worked as a clinical psychologist at the child psychiatric hospital La Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris. Patrick published several papers on the Rorschach test as well as a group of papers on the psychological assessment of children. He is a member of Rorschachiana editorial board. He is currently the president of the International Rorschach Institute which he created in 2020.
Professor Emeritus, Paris Nanterre University (France), Clinical Psychologist. President of the Comprehensive System International Rorschach Association (CSIRA), Curator of the Hermann Rorschach Archives and Museum, French Delegate to the Board of Ethics of the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA). Main research topics are psychopathology of violent behaviours, psychometric properties of the Rorschach test, psychology assessment in forensic settings, epistemology. She is member of the French-language Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods, and fellow member of the Society for Personality Assessment.
Licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, she has been a Technical Consultant of the Court of Milan and other Courts since 1997, carrying out expert witnesses in criminal and civil matters. She has been a clinical psychology lecturer at the University of Milan since 1997. She is co-founder of IRPSI (the Italian Institute of Rorschach CS and Integrative Personality Assessment) where she has been teaching the Rorschach CS and integrative assessment since 2006. She trained with Stephen Finn in Therapeutic Assessment and has been practicing Collaborative Assessment at the Mental Health Unit of the ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo di Milano, where she also works as an EMDR psychotherapist and mindfulness-oriented therapist, oversees the assessment outpatient unit and is a teacher-trainer and scientific head in several training, supervision and refresher courses in psychological assessment for mental health psychologists. She served as ERA and ISR delegate and is a founding member of CSIRA. She has been a Member at Large of the Executive Board of the ISR and is a SPA member. She participated in several research projects with the Rorschach CS.
Licensed clinical psychologist, specialist and supervisor in psychotherapy, with private practice in Copenhagen, Denmark. Former leading psychologist at the Child Guidance Clinic in Copenhagen County; former associate lecturer at University of Copenhagen and University of Aarhus in clinical psychology and assessment theory. He was one of the founders of the Comprehensive System International Rorschach Association (CSIRA). He was one of the founders of, and first and present President of, the Danish Rorschach Society, and he is President for the International Society for the Rorschach’s IVXX congress in Copenhagen in 2024. Kim Gabriel Hansen has made several Workshops in Denmark concerning the Comprehensive System and psychological assessment every year for more than 25 years, he has published several articles and chapters on Rorschach and clinical assessment.
Honorary professor at the University of Liege (Belgium), he introduced the teaching of the Comprehensive System in the academic curriculum of psychology students in the 90s.
He has created courses and clinical activities in the fields of psychotrauma, sexual delinquency and forensics. He has been very involved in ethical and deontological issues.
He was one of the founders of the European Rorschach Association (ERA-AER) and served successively as vice-president and president, as well as CSIRA-ARISI (vice-president). He is the author or co-author of several publications related to the Comprehensive System.
Licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Nakamura is the Co-founder/director of the Asian-Pacific Center for Therapeutic Assessment in 2014. She is certified in Therapeutic Assessment with adults and couples. Co-Director of Nakamura Psychotherapy Institute founded in 1989, in Tokyo. Also, in the same year founded Exner Japan Associates for teaching and research on the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS). Founding member of the Japan Rorschach Society for the CS 1993 and its president for 12 years. Board member of the International Rorschach Society (ISR) since 2002, including Vice-President 2008-2014 and President 2014-2021. President of the 2011 and Co-President of the 2022 ISR Congresses.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist, she is co- founder and President of the Italian Institute of Rorschach and Integrated psychological assessment (IRPSI), where she has been teaching the Rorschach CS and integrative assessment since 2006. She works in private practice in clinical and forensic setting. Member of the school board of Sipre (Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi delle Relazioni). Former active member of the European Rorschach Association (ERA), now member of Rorschach Comprehensive System International Association (CSIRA / ARISI).Reviewer and member of the Board of Assessors of the magazine 'Rorschachiana' published by 'International Society for the Rorschach and projective methods (ISR).
Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is currently a Chief Psychologist at a female prison in the United States where he is responsible for the treatment, assessment, and management of female offenders. He is also the co-founder of Maverick Psychology Training and Consultation with Carl Gacono. With his co-authors, he has published on female offenders/psychopathy as well as theoretical Rorschach articles. Recently, with Carl Gacono and Ted Cunliffe, he was the senior author of Understanding Female Offenders: Psychopathy, Criminal Behavior, Assessment, and Treatment. He is on the Board of Assessors for Rorschachiana, and he has received board certification from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Smith has presented his research and workshops on assessing and treating female offenders both nationally and internationally. Dr. Smith was awarded the APA Division 18 Criminal Justice Section Outstanding Dissertation Award (2014) and the SPA John E. Exner Scholar Award.
Licensed clinical psychologist, working in private practice in Israel. She is lecturing courses on psychological assessment and on the Rorschach and projective techniques at Ruppin Academic Center. She has published several papers on the Rorschach and serves as the secretary of the Comprehensive System International Rorschach Association (CSIRA) and of the Israeli Rorschach Society.