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 ...

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 ...

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 ...