Also known as an inkblot test, a Rorschach test is a psychological test in which the subject is asked to interpret dark, abstract blots of ink against a white background. A projective test which reached the height of its popularity in the 1960s, the test has long been controversial for its wide ranges of interpretation and the difficulty that accompanies validating or verifying concrete results.
Rorschach Test Quotes in An Unquiet Mind
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[The professor] was kind enough to call creative that which some, no doubt, would have called psychotic. It was my first lesson in appreciating the complicated, permeable boundaries between bizarre end original thought, and I remain deeply indebted to him for the intellectual tolerance that cast a positive rather than pathological hue over what I had written.
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Chapter 2: An Education for Life
...One day, the professor asked the class to conduct written responses to images from the Rorschach test —a series of inkblots meant to be interpreted by psychiatric patients to help determined their...
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Jamison did, however, balk at the use of psychological and intelligence tests such as the Rorschach test and the WAIS, or Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. When she administered them to her husband...
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