Hermann Rorschach Facts
Hermann Rorschach Facts
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| Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland and was the eldest of three children. |
| Rorschach's father was an art teacher who encouraged his creativity and Rorschach considered a career in art but enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich. |
| One of his psychiatry professors was Eugen Bleuler, who had also taught Carl Jung. |
| While still in medical school, he became interested in why different people saw different things in the same inkblots and began showing inkblots to children and analyzing their responses. |
| In 1910 he married Olga Stempelin, a Russian employee of the hospital. |
| He received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1912, and he and his wife accepted posts at a mental institution in Moscow. |
| In 1914 he returned to Switzerland and accepted a post as assistant Director of the psychiatric hospital at Herisau. |
| In 1921 he wrote Psychodiagnostik, which outlined his use of the inkblot test in diagnosis. |
| The Rorschach test is based on the human tendency to project feelings onto ambiguous pictures. |
| The test has fallen out of favor because the results can be subjective. |
| On 1 April 1922, Rorschach died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. |
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