Since its establishment in the early 1920’s the Rorschach test has always been controversial. Named after its Swiss creator, Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach test is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss Psychiatrist born in Zurich in 1884 to a father who was a local art teacher who encouraged his to express himself in all creative capacity. He received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1909. It was a combination of his high creative upbringing, his medical training, and his friendship with Carl Jung, who was using free association to tap into the unconscious, that influenced his book on inkblots and their significance in the world of psychology. Psychologists have …show more content…
Rorschach, who also served as Vice President of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, decided to pen a book, Psychodiagnostik, in 1921 after observing 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects. Though the book introduced the basics of the use of inkblot test, only ten inkblots were featured although he had hand drawn hundreds of them. Despite his position as Vice President he had trouble publishing the book, low sales post-publication did not help either. After his death in 1922, his test scoring system was refined by many including Bruno Klopfer, a German psychologist who studied with Carl Jung at the Zurich Psychotechnic Institute. It was at this location that Klopfer first came into contact with the Rorschach test. It was John Exner, an American psychologist who made the scoring statistically