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PSYCHODIAGNOSTIK #0604/ 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape | | Medium: | Acrylic on non-stretched linen | | Size (inches): | 75 x 21.5 | | Size (mm): | 1905 x 546 | | Catalog #: | PA_035 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse: See Catalog #WD_059/ 2004.
Rorschach test:
It consisted of ten cards, each containing inkblots. Five were in colour and the remaining in black and white. The subject is shown each card and asked what they see and the response is recorded. They are then shown the cards a second time and are asked to explain any ambiguous responses and point out what part of the part of the inkblot prompted their reaction. The
interview notes all social behaviour, e.g. do they feel challenged or intimidated.
The tests are evaluated using the following criteria:
1) Location: does the subject respond to the whole inkblot or specific parts of it?
2) Quality: does the subject respond to the colour, shade, or what they perceive as movement?
3) Content: does the subject perceive animals, humans, and animate or inanimate objects?
4) Conventionality: How do the responses compare statistically with average responses.
Psychologists and psychiatrists in Europe and elsewhere soon saw the inkblot test as a useful tool. Using it they could explore the fantasy life of their patient without direct questioning, thus reducing the time for psychoanalysis. Repeated testing could check a patient's progress and the development of children. It also has been used to assess the severity of clients' emotional problems.
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Who was Hermann Rorschach?
Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist, born in 1884 in Zurich. His father was a painter and Hermann considered the same career before he made up his mind for psychiatry, which he learnt at Eugen Bleuler´s clinic in Zurich. Hermann Rorschach mainly worked in Switzerland but also in Russia, where he had many scientific contacts. His wife Olga, also a physician, was of Russian origin.
Hermann Rorschach took a deep interest in psychoanalysis, and during the 1910´s he published several psychoanalytic articles. Already in 1911 he had begun experimenting with the interpretation of ink blots. He was not the first one who did this; among his famous forerunners are Leonardo da Vinci and Justinus Kerner. In 1919, Rorschach again took up serious studies of this field — the result was the book "Psychodiagnostik"(1921)*.
This work is nowadays regarded as one of the great classics of psychiatry and psychology, but Hermann Rorschach himself never experienced any success with it. He had difficulties finding a publisher for it, and it was not well received when it finally came out.
Hermann Rorschach, with Eugen Bleuler´s words "the hope for a whole generation of Swiss psychiatry", died on the 2d of April, 1922, from the complications of an appendicitis.
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*His book Psychodiagnostik represents Rorschach's masterpiece, but the publication was a total disaster. The entire edition remained unsold, and those few who showed some interest, were almost hostile in their critics. The publisher, Bircher, went bankrupt shortly afterwards. Rorschach was somewhat depressed, but far from knocked out. In a lecture to the Swiss psychoanalytic society in February 1922, one month after publication, he spoke of a further development of his test. But fate decided otherwise. On April 1st, 1922, Hermann Rorschach was hospitalised after a week of abdominal pains, probably caused by a ruptured appendix. An explorative laparotomy was performed, but the condition proved to be inoperable, and Rorschach died of peritonitis the following day, only 37 years of age.
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