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The Rorschach Test at 100
2021 marks the centenary of the publication of Hermann Rorschach’s text, Psychodiagnostics, a 174-page monograph ... which became the foundation of his famous test. Sadly, Rorschach died prematurely the following year of a burst ... was published. She wrote a...
Queer approaches to depathologisation
... only one leg. Red lipstick.” These are the responses to Rorschach ink blot Card number 3 by a woman ‘who was deeply ... in the US and Hopkins’ work, comparatively, was the only Rorschach research used for queer affirmative ends in ... reason why, thinking...
Blot on the landscape?
In 1959 Samuel Beck began his review of the Rorschach inkblot test with the question: ‘To Rorschach? Or not to Rorschach?’ He observed an ‘unresolved ambivalence’ ...
Rorschach Audio – art and illusion for sound
... I published a critique of EVP research, under the title ‘Rorschach audio’, as part of the sleeve-notes for a CD of ... in 1999. Since then there have been a number of updated ‘Rorschach audio’ articles, notably a paper that was ... In 2007 I received funding to...
News, media, and the next big questions
... to consider Fall-out from the online publication of the Rorschach ink-blots on Wikipedia has continued late into the ... claim the Canadian doctor, James Heilman, who posted the Rorschach images online, is to be investigated by his local ... months of online...
Defending the indefensible
JOHN Donnelly suggests that the Rorschach is ‘as valid as other personality tests’. He also ascribes the widespread criticisms of the Rorschach in the US to a ‘vocal minority’, giving the ... work Wood et al. (2003) ask ‘What’s wrong with the Rorschach...
Students
... in Edinburgh. Behind the name by Peter Basile HermanN rorschach was born in Switzerland on 8 November 1884. He read ... 1921 Psychodiagnostik outlined the method now known as the Rorschach Test. Images seen in films, magazines and on television tend to merely...
In the presence of a great psychologist - Boris Semeonoff
... on my lap. There, unmistakably, was a large picture of a Rorschach ink-blot. Doubtless, every stereotype the world has ... was confirmed in an instant. My interest in the Rorschach at the time stemmed from an interview I was about ...
Letters
... Psychologist North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust Rorschach allegations unfounded? It has come to my attention ... January 2008) includes some erroneous statements about the Rorschach inkblot method. Chief among these is the allegation ... pathologise...
When therapy causes harm
... assessment. Many feel that projective techniques like the Rorschach inkblot test and the Thematic Apperception Test are particularly problematic. The Rorschach is still used widely, especially in the United ... States ( www.thepsychologist.org.uk archive search...
The origins of inkblots
... inkblots is often associated with the psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, but its origins lie in children’s games, ...
Our storytelling nature
... of The Three Stooges. I should have been fascinated by the Rorschach element of the film, but I wasn’t – not at ...
One to one... with Clive Fletcher
... I encountered. And the clinical psychologists used the Rorschach. I know the field has improved beyond recognition ...
Soul-searching and simply living
... about the nature and role of a psychologist, complete with Rorschach test. Here we also get Jung jokes and ...
Eysenck and the development of CBT
... of the widespread use of projective tests such as the Rorschach. As a well-grounded psychometrician, Eysenck ...
Digest
... designed to probe subconscious beliefs. The famous Rorschach inkblot test is one example, but many psychologists ...
‘Connection with another human being is at the heart of the job’
... Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and a collection of the Rorschach inkblot cards, which I carried around with me. Now, ...
From assessing individuals to transforming organisations
... the late ‘70s] was duping psychologists when reacting to Rorschach inkblot tests.’ ‘I chose Hull to study ...
Book reviews
... on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous inkblots in a Swiss children’s game ...
Our July time machine
... for reducing conflict , and what’s wrong with the Rorschach test . In 2002 we asked if the Society’s ...
Our June time machine
... disgust , magical thinking , and the origins of the Rorschach test . In 2003 we looked at offender ...
Our May time machine
... reviled of all psychological assessment tools’ – the Rorschach Ink Blot test . We summarised the research of Nobel ...
Critical and historical accounts
... ‘Wonder Woman’ (my own personal favourite!) and Rorschach (from Watchmen 1987) to explore how psychology and ...
A road to art therapy in six works
... help. Random ink or paint splodges can work as your own Rorschach test (with your own system for interpreting them). ...
Keeping it simple
... tasks); Morgan and Murray’s Thematic Apperception Test; Rorschach’s inkblots; Kohlberg’s moral dilemmas; and ...