For whatever cosmic reason, I was fortunate to grow up in a privileged household. My father was a successful obstetrician and gynecologist, we lived in a beautiful house and my brother and I went to ...

The Rorschach test has permeated the collective imagination perhaps more than any other psychological tool. The image of the impassive doctor, holding aloft a series of inkblots and asking, “What do ...

One of the most well-known psychological tools is the Rorschach Inkblot Test. A viewer looks at ten inkblots, one at a time, and describes what they see. The rationale behind this test is the idea ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After their widespread use during ...

The evocative blobs and curves of the Rorschach inkblots are ubiquitous. By now, nearly a century after a Swiss psychiatrist developed them—as a neutral panel of images designed to elicit revealing ...

A psychiatrist holding up an inky blob and saying “what does this look like?” might be the most famous psycholigical test of all time. Originally developed by Hermann Rorschach as means of detecting ...

Iconic blots of ink on today's Google Doodle honor Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday. But over a century later, the validity of his famous psychological test—the Rorschach—depends ...