Hermann rorschach was a swiss bleulerianinfluenced psychoanalytic psychiatrist, best known for developing what is today referred to as the rorschachtest. The actual test, still in sporadic use, takes a more persnickety, boxticking approach to the. The rorschach test involves the assessment by a psychiatrist or psychologist of a subjects responses when asked what he or she sees in a series of inkblots. An introduction to rorschach assessment 285 relationships with a criterion regardless of whether they make conceptual sense, to fully rational, in which items are selected based on logic and a theoretical understanding of the construct to be measured regardless of whether there is statistical evidence to support that belief. Hermann rorschach biography, birth date, birth place and. The rorschach psychological test are psychologists hiding a lack of expertise. Media in category hermann rorschach the following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. 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. The underlying premise of the test is that people suffering from mental illness will respond in a markedly different way to the inkblots as compared to normal people.
Psychodiagnostics hardcover january 1, 1942 by hermann rorschach author 5. Hermann rorschach was born in zurich to an ancient swiss family from the canton thurgau. Just after april fools day in 1922, hermann rorschach, a psychologist who used a. His education in art helped one year after writing psychodiagnostik, rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix. The test was designed by a swiss psychiatrist and artist in the early 1920s. The rorschach inkblot test is a popular performancebased personality test developed by hermann rorschach 18841922. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. Rorschach liked the game so much, that he acquired the nickname, klecks.
He went to school in the small town of schaffhausen, in an atmosphere of intellectual and cultural affluence. The story begins with hermann rorschach, a swiss psychiatrist possessed by. Hermann rorschach 18841922, son of a drawing teacher and himself a good. Publication date 1951 publisher verlag hans huber, berne collection universallibrary contributor. As a secondary school student, he was nicknamed kleck. Hermann rorschach was a swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Pdf rorschach bibliography university of bern jacobo riquelme. Hermann rorschach, born november 8, 1884, zurich, switzerlanddied april 2, 1922, herisau, swiss psychiatrist who devised the inkblot test that bears his name and that was widely used clinically for diagnosing psychopathology the eldest son of an art teacher, rorschach considered becoming an artist but chose medicine instead.
Swiss psychiatrist hermann rorschach was the developer of the widelyused personality evaluation method known as the rorschach test. Hermann rorschach foi psiquiatra em zurique e morreu em. He leaves behind a widely known, but no longer widely used, test for diagnosing mental illness with inkblots. Controversy over inkblot test for many years, psychologists have used the rorschach test, which consists of 10 inkblots, to gain insight into patients mental and emotional states.
In honor of hermann rorschachs birthday he was born on this day in 1884, weve provided the original images from the rorschach test on our site, as well as some of the most popular responses. Wadim rorschach 19192010, son of olga and hermann rorschach and, like his father, a psychiatrist, never married had no offspring. Breve storia il test deve il nome al suo ideatore hermann rorschach 18841922, psichiatra svizzero. Using comparisons of individuals with various diagnoses, he posited that varying types of experiences could be determined.
Curiosamente, em sua respectiva biografia, levada a termo por seeber. Hermann rorschach trained with influential psychiatrist carl jung, but he also had a strong artistic background. Hermann rorschach article about hermann rorschach by the. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subjects personality. D his life and work wolfgang schwarz related information. Hermann rorschach was a swiss psychiatrist who developed the controversial inkblot test. When the ink blots that hermann rorschach designed and created were first printed, he and verlag hans huber as we were then called developed special printing processes and techniques to achieve the precise colours and shades he had conceived. Rorschach and his two siblings enjoyed artistic, intellectual childhoods. Hermann rorschach zurich, 1884 herisau, 1922 psiquiatra suizo.
Rorschach and various other psychological tests but are using them to add to the data and their fees. Hermann rorschach, the pioneering psychiatrist, was born 129 years ago today. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used. Sadly, as it turns out, rorschach the metaphor is a lot more compelling than rorschach the reality. Storia della vita di hermann rorschach, psichiatra svizzero. The game consisted of making pictures out of random ink splotches. When hermann was still in high school, he became fascinated with a youthful game called klecksography. His father, who died in 1903, was a failed artist who provided a living for his family by working as a drawing teacher in a boys preparatory school. Rorschach, hermann definition of rorschach, hermann by. The rorschach archives guide institut fur medizingeschichte.
See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Inventory fonds hermann rorschach institut fur medizingeschichte. Hermann rorschach 18841922 the man who made inkblots his lifes work most people have heard of the rorschach inkblot test. This biography of hermann rorschach provides detailed information. If you see something else in these images, feel free to let us know in the comments section on our site. The eye of the beholder how rorschachs inkblots turned personality testing into an art. The hermann rorschach archives and museum is dedicated to one single man who, through his work, became world famous. It is not, the hermann rorschach inkblot test is not a game, although you are shown pictures and you need to guess what these pictures mean. Psychodiagnostics a diagnostic test based on perception by hermann rorschach.