| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Documents the story of the creator of the psychological test developed to reveal key aspects of human personality, sharing insights into how his inkblots were carefully designed and how the test took on a life of its own after his early death. |
| Contents |
Introduction: tea leaves -- All becomes movement and life -- Klex -- I want to read people -- Extraordinary discoveries and warring worlds -- A path of one's own -- Little inkblots full of shapes -- Hermann Rorschach feels his brain being sliced apart -- The darkest and most elaborate delusions -- Pebbles in a riverbed -- A very simple experiment -- It provokes interest and head-shaking everywhere -- The psychology he sees is his psychology -- Right on the threshold to a better future -- The inkblots come to America -- Fascinating, stunning, creative, dominant -- The queen of tests -- Iconic as a stethoscope -- The Nazi Rorschachs -- A crisis of images -- The system -- Different people see different things -- Beyond true or false -- Looking ahead -- The Rorschach test is not a Rorschach test -- Appendix: The Rorschach family -- Hermann Rorschach's character by Olga Rorschach-Shtempelin. |
| Subject |
Rorschach, Hermann, 1884-1922.
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| Subject(S) |
Psychiatrists -- Switzerland.
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Rorschach Test.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780804136549 (hardcover) |
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0804136548 (hardcover) |
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9780804136563 (paperback) |
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0804136564 (paperback) |
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