Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2321

HERMANN RORSCHACH (1884-1922) Psychodiagnostik. E. Bircher 1921 174 pp., 10 plates (part col.). 23 cm.

Rorschach was born in Zurich and educated in German and Swiss medical schools. Long interested in inkblots, during his psychiatric training he made his first studies of how people react to them by trying to determine whether gifted students had more fantasies than average students. He was later introduced to psychoanalysis by Bleuler (see No. 2196) and Carl Jung (see No. 2301 ff.) and continued to investigate the idea that an individual's reactions to inkblots reveal a great deal about his personality. Rorschach eventually developed a standard test of ten inkblots which he asked patients to interpret. By analyzing the patient's perceptions of each inkblot, Rorschach was able to gain valuable insights into the patient's inner life which could then be applied in therapy. This now-famous book with its portfolio of ten inkblot specimens used in the Rorschach test was based on tests given to 300 mental patients and 100 normal individuals.

See Related Record(s): 2196 2301

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4988.1

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