Hermann Rorschach
See also: Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach (Zurich, November 8th 1884 - Herisau, April 2nd 1922) is a Psychiatre Suisse, celebrates to have developed the test which bears its name.
Biographical note
Born from a father professor of art, it is itself gifted for this matter. Excel draftsman and impassioned painting, he hesitates between this way and the medical studies and chooses finally medicine while specializing in psychiatry. In 1909, it works a thesis on the hallucinations and its Master of thesis is not other than Bleuler.
Interested by the Russian culture, he works one year in this country then, for unknown reasons, he turns over food to Switzerland.
He works then in several private clinics and becomes vice-president of the Swiss Société of psychoanalysis in 1919. However, an appendicitis attack strikes it and he dies, before to have been able to be operated, in 1922, at the 37 years age.
Work
He mainly worked with the development of a projective test Psychodiagnostik (called today Test of Rorschach) intended to evaluate the psychological characteristics of an individual according to the way in which he reacts to tasks of ink. He thus compares the answers of the patients with those of normal individuals. He discovers thus that visual perception is influenced by the personality. This test will become common ten years after its death.
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