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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a small town in Switzerland in 1917, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach began carefully splattering paint on cards to ...

If things had been a bit different, Hermann Rorschach, born on this day in 1884, might have become an artist, rather than a psychologist. Instead, he came up with a famous, if now discredited, ...

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 ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, November 8th, 1884, 131 years ago today ... the day Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He grew up to become a psychiatrist -- and the ...