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Psychodiagnostics: A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception
This text contains the English translation of Hermann Rorschach's original description of his famous test and his experiments using it, as well as his paper entitled "Application of the form interpretation test". It describes the technique and the many interesting results achieved in psychological experiments regarding a test which, despite its simplicity, has proved to be of great value in research and in general testing. The widespread and still growing interest in the Rorschach test which exists in the English-speaking world has made apparent the need for a more easily available source of information concerning the original work. This English translation is presented in the hope of filling that need.
- GenresPsychologyNonfiction
228 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1921
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Hermann Rorschach
13 books12 followersHermann Rorschach was a Swiss Bleulerian-influenced psychoanalytic psychiatrist, best known for developing what is today referred to as the Rorschach-Test. Though the instrument has been administered, scored, and interpreted with a multitude of disparate methods since its inception, the plates and procedure were designed by Rorschach to provide not only a diagnostic profile of the examinee, but also as a means of differentiation between neurotic disorders, psychotic disorders, and otherwise normative mental health functioning. In the test session, individuals are exposed to each plate and asked to report what the image in front of them might be.
Rorschach was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the eldest of three children born to Ulrich Rorschach. Rorschach's father, an art teacher, encouraged him to express himself creatively through painting and drawing conventional pictures. As the time of his high school graduation approached, he could not decide between a career in art and one in science. He wrote a letter to the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel asking his advice. The scientist suggested science, and Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich. Rorschach also began learning Russian, and in 1906, while studying in Berlin, he traveled to Russia for a holiday.
Rorschach studied under the eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who had taught Carl Jung. The excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. Wondering why different people often saw entirely different things in the same inkblots, he began, while still a medical student, showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their responses. Rorschach graduated in medicine at Zurich in 1909 and at the same time became engaged to Olga Stempelin, a girl from Kazan (in the present-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia).
At the end of 1913, after graduation, he married Stempelin, and the couple moved to live in Russia. The following year, he moved back to Switzerland and became a resident at Waldau Psychiatric University, while awaiting the arrival of his wife, who had been temporarily detained in Russia. A daughter named Elizabeth was born in 1917 and a son, Wadin, in 1919. By 1915, he had accepted a position as associate director at a regional psychiatric hospital, the Herisau Asylum, and it was here, in 1921, that he wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test.
Only one year after writing his book, however, Rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix. He was still Associate Director of the Herisau Hospital when he died at the age of 37, on 2 April 1922.
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Rorschach was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the eldest of three children born to Ulrich Rorschach. Rorschach's father, an art teacher, encouraged him to express himself creatively through painting and drawing conventional pictures. As the time of his high school graduation approached, he could not decide between a career in art and one in science. He wrote a letter to the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel asking his advice. The scientist suggested science, and Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich. Rorschach also began learning Russian, and in 1906, while studying in Berlin, he traveled to Russia for a holiday.
Rorschach studied under the eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who had taught Carl Jung. The excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. Wondering why different people often saw entirely different things in the same inkblots, he began, while still a medical student, showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their responses. Rorschach graduated in medicine at Zurich in 1909 and at the same time became engaged to Olga Stempelin, a girl from Kazan (in the present-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia).
At the end of 1913, after graduation, he married Stempelin, and the couple moved to live in Russia. The following year, he moved back to Switzerland and became a resident at Waldau Psychiatric University, while awaiting the arrival of his wife, who had been temporarily detained in Russia. A daughter named Elizabeth was born in 1917 and a son, Wadin, in 1919. By 1915, he had accepted a position as associate director at a regional psychiatric hospital, the Herisau Asylum, and it was here, in 1921, that he wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test.
Only one year after writing his book, however, Rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix. He was still Associate Director of the Herisau Hospital when he died at the age of 37, on 2 April 1922.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschac...
http://www.biography.com/people/herma...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
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May 13, 2019
Amazing and incredibly difficult.
A great loss to humankind that Rorschach died and wasn't able to complete his work. His book shows the thoroughness and exemplary behavior that I would expect out of a doctor.
This book reads like a medical study, because it is one. I will be researching an adaptation of somebody who has taken the torch and broken down the information in a way that is easier to mentally digest.
That being said, I would only recommend this to people who are interested in being a doctor and need some historical reading. I myself did not finish the book, but have added an alternative and related text to my list of books to read.
A great loss to humankind that Rorschach died and wasn't able to complete his work. His book shows the thoroughness and exemplary behavior that I would expect out of a doctor.
This book reads like a medical study, because it is one. I will be researching an adaptation of somebody who has taken the torch and broken down the information in a way that is easier to mentally digest.
That being said, I would only recommend this to people who are interested in being a doctor and need some historical reading. I myself did not finish the book, but have added an alternative and related text to my list of books to read.
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