April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The ...

The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes what ...

In the classic Rorschach test, the psychoanalyst shows a patient a bunch of inkblots and asks what each looks like. The responses are supposed to help guide the psychoanalysis by offering insight into ...

Watchmen, the blockbuster film adaptation of a beloved graphic novel, opens Friday. The movie’s vigilante hero, Rorschach, spends much of his screen time hidden behind an ink-splattered mask. We’re ...

The creator of the ink blot test, Hermann Rorschach, used the images to test the patients' perceptions. For a long time, they have been used to determine personality characteristics and identify any ...

These days, you're more likely to come across the concept of a Rorschach test in a cultural context than a clinical one. The actual psychological test — in which participants are asked to interpret 10 ...

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 ...

Today’s market environment is a bit like a Rorschach test. We’re all looking at the same inkblot, yet we see different shapes: higher prices and thinning opportunities, the end of inflation amid ...

You can’t miss the mask. It occupies center frame, and the opening shot of HBO’s Watchmen trailer. A room full of unidentified figures wear it, clad in plaid clothing, muttering the line: “We are no ...

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