Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach was born on November 8, 1884, in Zurich. He was known by the nickname 'Klecks' meaning inkblot, to his friends, because he enjoyed making pictures out of inkblots – klecksography.
Rorschach became aware of Swiss psychiatrist Szyman Hens' studies using inkblot cards to analyse patients' fantasies, as well as his contemporary, Carl Jung. He had in fact studied under the eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who had taught Carl Jung.
Rorschach combined his interests in psychoanalysis and art to create his own controversial "Rorschach inkblot test." He was the first researcher to use inkblots to analyase how patients projected their own associations onto seemingly random stimuli. His test consisted of 10 inkblot cards, which patients were shown one at a time, while Rorschach wrote down their answers. He used the data to draw conclusions about the patient's social behavior.
In 1921 he compiled his findings in a book, Psychodiagnostik, which formed the basis of the inkblot test and became successfully very quickly because of the variety of readings of behaviour the tests seem to give. However psychologists have since discredited his theory.
The Swiss Freudian psychiatrist died at the age of 37, just a year after completing his book, from peritonitis. He left behind his wife and a son and a daughter, as well as the legacy of his inkblot test.
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