@article{775562,
      recid = {775562},
      author = {Searls, Damion,},
      title = {The inkblots : Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test, and the  power of seeing /},
      pages = {x, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      abstract = {In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum,  psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to  probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the  theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the  aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had  come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we  say, as Freud thought, than what we see. Rorschach himself  was a visual artist, and his test, a set of ten carefully  designed inkblots, quickly made its way to America, where  it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military  after Pearl Harbor, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg  trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an  advertising staple, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism,  and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay-Z.  The test was also given to millions of defendants, job  applicants, parents in custody battles, workers applying  for jobs, and people suffering from mental illness -- or  simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is  still used today. Damion Searls draws on unpublished  letters and diaries, and a cache of interviews with  Rorschach's family, friends, and colleagues, to tell the  story of the test's creation, its controversial  reinvention, and its endurance -- and what it all reveals  about the power of perception.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775562},
}