Sunday, April 2, 2017

The Inkblots Hermann Rorshach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls


Fascinating at the start but later the book gets into more of details with in the professional of psychological.  This may go over the head of many but still a great biography behind the man of inkblots.  The story of the of Rorschach life and what lead him to the inkblot testing is an interesting story. The author provides a huge amount of research in this book.  He provides Rorschach childhood, his start in the field of psychology and how it is incorporated into today psychology practices.  The test developed was intended to understand how people see things.  Unfortunately, after his death the true meaning behind the test loses its focus and leads to another path that was most likely not really what he had intended.  The author’s research into how the Rorschach test was originally conceived is what I found the most interested part of the book.  Further research go into detail around what other psychologists and psychiatrists did with the test.  This lead to how it was measured and interpreted.  Again, I find the first part of the book which is mainly his biography the more interesting part of the book and what life events lead him to developing the inkblot test.  The unanswered questions because of Rorschach untimely death makes you wonder what the test could have been like if he had lived longer. 

I received a free copy of this book from WaterBrook Multnomah in exchange for my honest review of this book.

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