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Assignment 4 Discussion

Problem: The biggest problem that I have with this article is that there is very little information that is actually relevant to Rorschach himself. There is information about how he got inspiration for the test and how others have developed similar things, but there isn't a lot of info about him! This is especially true in the personal life section.

References:

1. Journal of Personality Assessment. Dec1984, Vol. 48 Issue 6, p591. 6p. "Centenary of the Birth of Hermann Rorschach"

2. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 515-518, 2015. "Use of Rorschach tests at the Nuremberg war crimes trial: A forgotten chapter in history of medicine"

Questions: 1. Do you think that some of the early life section should be in the personal life section? 2. How can we separate the sections so that information about other people is not mixed in with Rorschach?

Lavendergrl66 (talk) 17:06, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Problems with the Article:

1. A major problem with this article is a severe lack of information related to Hermann Rorschach's early, personal, and late life. Also, different applications of the Rorschach test are not discussed in the current Wikipedia article pertaining to Hermann Rorschach.

Two New Related Articles:

2. Schwarz, W. (1996). Hermann Rorschach, M.D.: His life and work. Rorschachiana, 21(1), 6-17. doi:10.1027/1192-5604.21.1.6

3. The Society for Personality Assessment. (1996). American Psychologist, 51(9), 975-976. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.51.9.975

Questions or Comments about the Article:

4. What would be a good way to break up the different sections of this article?

5. Should "death" be a section of this article, or should the end of his life be incorporated into another section? Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 17:39, 30 September 2015 (UTC) Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 00:20, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Problems With Article:

The biggest problem I have is the lack of information on Hermann himself. There's plenty of information on his inkblot test and some information on his formal education, but this article is basically blank in terms of actual information on Hermann.

2 References:

1.The life and work of Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922).

Ellenberger, Henri

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Vol 18, 1954, 173-219.

2.Working with Dr. Hermann Rorschach Gertrud Behn-Eschenburg 
Journal of Projective Techniques 
Vol. 19, Iss. 1, 1955

Questions or Comments:

Does the article really need to mention that Google used his Inkblot for one of their logos (also called a "Google Doodle")? That may be more relevant on the Inkblot Test page, and even then, it's information that might not be relevant in the future, what with changes to technology and the internet.

Also, can we find some way to not only add more information to this article, but find a way to make it flow better? It seems so choppy and segmented, and in all honesty, it just doesn't read well.

Assignment 5

To-Do List

1. Designate tasks

2. Decide on article section titles

3. More research on his personal life

4. More research on the work he did and the contributions he made to Psychology (Rorschach's career)

5. More information about the Rorschach Test (both the development of and current uses of)

6. Additional information on his later life

Lavendergrl66 (talk) 18:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC) Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 20:28, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Since there are basically three sections for this article that we have come up with (career, personal life, and legacy), I think the most logical way to complete this assignment is for each of us to take a section. If everyone is okay with that, I would be more than happy to research and complete the section related to his personal life! You guys can decide which section you would like to complete. If either of you have any objections just let me know!

Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 20:40, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

I agree with that breakdown. I can take career and we can collaborate if anything needs to overlap a little bit with the timeline. Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:36, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

No objections from me either! Its the most logical way! I would be more than happy to write about his legacy.Triscuitchan (talk) 16:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Outline

• Education

Rorschach graduated in medicine at Zurich in 1909 Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC) As the time of his high school graduation approached, he could not decide between a career in art and one in science. He wrote a letter to the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel asking his advice. The scientist suggested science, and Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zürich. During this time, he studied psychiatry and took up Russian. From October 1904 to March 1909, Hermann Rorschach attended the University of Zürich Medical School. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Prior to finishing his dissertation, Rorschach worked as an asylum assistant in Münsterlingen and also at a mental hospital in Munsigne. Lavendergrl66 (talk) 00:51, 9 November 2015 (UTC)By 1912, he had completed his doctoral dissertation, which was sponsored by Dr. Eugen Bleuler, who was Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School in Zürich and the the director of the Burghölzli Mental Hospital. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

• Career

Rorschach graduated and pursued psychiatry in a variety of capacities. Given his knowledge of the Russian language, he accepted a private practice position in Russia. After a brief stint in that position, he returned to his homeland Switzerland to work in a psychiatric hospital.Lavendergrl66 (talk) 04:52, 9 November 2015 (UTC) Rorschach was mentored by Jung, and through this connection gained Freudian ideals including the development of psychodynamics.

• Ink Blots

September 1921 brought a new method of personality testing when Rorschach published his revolutionary Inkblot Test

1. REDIRECT Rorschach Test

. The assessment used a series of "ink blots" and a semi-formal interview style to tease personality information out of individuals. Due to its abstract content and presentation, the Rorschach test gave way to a new category of testing and personality analysis. Critics of his method point out the lack of standardization and the inability to generalize to other theories. Rorschach was heavily influenced by Freud, so there were cards with ink blots specifically designed as the mother card, father card, and sex card. Additionally there were phallic and vaginal references hidden in the ink blots. Lavendergrl66 (talk) 04:49, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

• Achievements

• In 1912, Hermann Rorschach published a case concerning a patient who had stolen a horse while in a state of fugue. These dissociative states fascinated Rorschach, and by the year 1917, he had published a case in which he utilized the word association experiment of Jung, free association, and and hypnosis for the cure of amnesia. He was also pursuing the interest he had developed in sects, sect leaders, and sect founders. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
• Rorschach had been working on ideas that were connected to the "Reflexhallucination," and in particular the ink blots that he first experimented with in the year 1911. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
• In 1921, the year before he died, Rorschach published his book Psychodynamics. The first inkblots were published within this book. Despite his premature death, his ink blots continue to make an impact on the Psychology community.

Lavendergrl66 (talk) 04:52, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Personal Life

• The name "Rorschach" was derived from a small port town on the Bodensee named Rorschach in Switzerland.

Birth

• Hermann was born in Zürich, Switzerland, but a short 2 years later, his family moved to Schaffhausen, where his father Ulrich was offered a job as a drawing teacher at the Realschule. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

• As an art teacher, Hermann's father encouraged him to express himself creatively[3] through painting and drawing conventional pictures. He spent his childhood and youth in Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland. He was known to his school friends as Klecks, or "inkblot" since he enjoyed klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot "pictures". Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

• Phillippina, Hermann's mother, died prematurely and rather suddenly from diabetes in the year 1897. His father, Ulrich, died shortly thereafter in the year 1903 from what was believed to be lead poisoning. However, the lead poisoning that he contracted was not uncommon for painters of that time. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

• Rorschach was the eldest of three children born to Ulrich and Philippine Rorschach.[2] At the young age of 18, upon the death of his parents, Hermann became the male head of the household. He, his sister Anna, who was 14 at the time, his brother Paul, who was 11 years old, and his half-sister Regina, who was 2 years old, all lived with Regina Wiedenkeller Rorschach after the passing of Ulrich and Phillippina. Regina Wiedenkeller Rorschach was little Regina's mother, and now their stepmother. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Middle life -- (children, marriage, etc.)

• In 1906, Hermann met a fellow medical student, Olga Stempelin, a girl from Kazan (in the present-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) at the University of Zürich Medical School. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

• Hermann was soon engaged to Olga Stempelin (whom he called his "Lola"), and at the end of 1913, after graduation, he married her; the couple moved to live in Russia thereafter.[5] Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

• They had daughter named Elizabeth who was born to them in 1917, and a son, Wadin, who was born in 1919.[9] Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Death

• Only one year after writing his book, however, Rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix.[10] He was still Associate Director of the Herisau Hospital when he died at the age of 37, on 1 April 1922.[11] Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Legacy

• Current uses of the Ink Blot Test
• Contributions made to current Psychological research
• In popular culture

'. The Rorschach Inkblot Test is the most well-known contribution Hermann Rorschach made to the field of Psychology and is one of the most iconic tests in the field. Hermann wasn't the first psychologist to experiment with inkblots and the interpretation of them, but is certainly most famous for designing the psychoanalytic test, after noticing that schizophrenic patients saw very odd images within the blots. To this day, Rorschach's legacy lives on in pop culture, mainly through the inkblot test.

'. In pop culture, Rorschach and references to his inkblot test became more numerous after the test became more well-known around the 1960's and 70's. Artist Andy Warhol made a painting series entitled Rorschach, in which he created numerous inkblots on canvas in various colors. '. In the popular comic book series The Watchmen, a superhero named Rorschach wears a mask with a constantly shifting image of an inkblot on it. The test itself has even been used by a number of companies for advertising purposes. The shampoo brand Head and Shoulders used the test to depict what appeared to be an image of a woman's hair flowing around her, with the caption "Whatever you see, you won't see dandruff." Musician Cee Lo Green and his group "Gnarls Barkley" used a multitude of inkblot-like images in their video for the song "Crazy" to go along with the psychological theme of the song.Triscuitchan (talk) 17:43, 9 November 2015 (UTC)bvn vg

Lavendergrl66 (talk) 18:17, 13 October 2015 (UTC) Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 20:27, 13 October 2015 (UTC) Triscuitchan (talk) 16:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

New References

1. Schwarz, W. (1996). Hermann Rorschach, M.D.: His life and work. Rorschachiana, 21(1), 6-17. doi:10.1027/1192-5604.21.1.6

2. The life and work of Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922). Ellenberger, HenriBulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Vol 18, 1954, 173-219.

3. Pichot, P. (1984). Centenary of the Birth of Hermann Rorschach. Journal Of Personality Assessment, 48(6), 591.

Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 20:37, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:45, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Lead Section Katelyn

Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884-1 April 1922) was a Swiss born psychologist who focused on klecksography, or the study of ink blots. This went against his family's expectations that he would pursue "a career in the natural sciences" His interest in the subject lead him to devise a test that was supposedly predictive of certain personality traits. The Rorschach Ink Blot Test is still used in many forms of psychological practice today, although not held in such high esteem in all countries compared to its premier. His academic career lead him from Switzerland to Russia, and eventually back to Switzerland. During this time he married and had two children. Although his life was tragically short, a mere 37 years, he contributed an iconic perspective testing method to psychology. Lavendergrl66 (talk) 22:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Comment: I think this is a very strong lead section! After writing mine, I realized ours are quite similar. My only comment is that it may not be entirely objective; some of the information may seem a little opinionated, but once it is in the article with supporting references, that probably will no longer be the case. Good job! Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 23:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Lead Section Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 23:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Born in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach (November 8, 1884 - April 1, 1922) was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. As a child, Rorschach developed a love for klecksography, or the study of ink blots, which eventually lead to his famous development of a specific projection test known as the Rorschach Inkblot Test. The purpose of this test was to further investigate one's unconscious personality traits through the interpretation of different ink blots. It was presumed that one would project their unconscious thoughts onto the inkblot picture. Although this test is still used in psychological/psychiatric practice today, it is not held to the prestige that it was upon its development. After marrying and having two children, Hermann Rorschach died at a young 37 years of age.

Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 23:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Comment: Ours are similar, but I like how you expand a little bit on the inkblot test. I think if we link it to the article on the actual test that is all the description we would need for that portion. I still think we need to expand on its usage, maybe listing the specific aspects of psychology that rely upon it (referenced in the inkblot article). I know I was surprised that forensic scientists used it. I think we could also add on more about his personal life using the new articles we have.Lavendergrl66 (talk) 23:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Assignment 7 -- Final Lead Section

Born in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach (November 8, 1884 - April 1, 1922) was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. As a child, Rorschach developed a love for klecksography, the study of ink blots, which went against his family's expectations that he would pursue "a career in natural sciences." However, it was because of his love for klecksography that Hermann Rorschach became famous for his development of a specific projection test known as the

1. REDIRECT Rorschach Test Lavendergrl66 (talk) 18:01, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

'. The purpose of this test was to further investigate one's unconscious personality traits through the interpretation of different ink blots; it was presumed that one would project their unconscious thoughts onto the inkblot picture. The Rorschach Ink Blot Test is still used in many forms of psychological practice today, although not held in such high esteem in all countries compared to its premier. However, the test remains popular in Japan. Lavendergrl66 (talk) 00:20, 9 November 2015 (UTC)After marrying and having two children, Hermann Rorschach died at a young 37 years of age. Although his life was tragically short, Hermann Rorschach contributed an iconic perspective testing method to the field of psychology. Emilyyyv 003 (talk) 18:26, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Assignment 8 -- Final Compilation of the Article!!

Hermann Rorschach (November 8, 1884 - April 1, 1922) was a Freudian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who was born in Switzerland. As a young child, Rorschach developed a love for klecksography, the study of inkblots, which went against his family's expectations that he would pursue a career in "the natural sciences." However, it was due to his deep love of klecksography that Hermann Rorschach became famous for his development of a specific projective test known as the Rorschach Test. The purpose of this test was to further investigate one's unconscious personality traits through the interpretation of different ink blots; it was presumed that one would project their unconscious thoughts onto the inkblot picture. The Rorschach Ink Blot Test is still used in many forms of psychological practice today, although it is not held in such high esteem in all countries (aside from Japan), compared to its premier. After, marrying and having two children, Hermann Rorschach died at a young 37 years of age. Although his life was tragically short, Hermann Rorschach contributed an iconic perspective testing method to the field of psychology.

Early Life and Career

Hermann Rorschach was born in Zürich, Switzerland, to Ulrich and Phillippina Rorschach. A short 2 years later, his family moved to Schaffhausen (in Northern Switzerland), where his father Ulrich was offered a job as a drawing teacher at the Realschule. As an art teacher, Hermann's father encouraged Hermann to express himself creatively through painting and drawing conventional pictures.

Phillippina, Hermann's mother, died prematurely and rather suddenly from diabetes in the year 1897. His father, Ulrich, died shortly thereafter in the year 1903 from what was believed to be lead poisoning. However, the lead poisoning that he contracted was not uncommon for painters of that time. Rorschach was the eldest of three children born to Ulrich and Philippine Rorschach. At the young age of 18, upon the death of his parents, Hermann became the male head of the household. He, his sister Anna, who was 14 at the time, his brother Paul, who was 11 years old, and his half-sister Regina, who was 2 years old, all lived with Regina Wiedenkeller Rorschach after the passing of Ulrich and Phillippina. Regina Wiedenkeller Rorschach was little Regina's mother, and then Hermann, Anna, and Paul's stepmother after the passing of their parents.

As the time of his high school graduation approached, he could not decide between a career in the arts and one in science. So, he decided to write a letter to the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel, (who he later studied under and was the professor of psychiatry at the medical school in Zürich and the director of the Burghölzli Mental Hospital) asking for his advice on the matter. The scientist suggested science; soon thereafter Rorschach enrolled in medical school at the University of Zürich, which he attended from October 1904 until March of 1909. During this time, he studied psychiatry. Rorschach also took up Russian as a second language while at the University of Zürich. Prior to finishing his dissertation, Rorschach worked as an asylum assistant in Münsterlingen and also at a mental hospital in Munsigne. By 1912, he had completed his doctoral dissertation, which was sponsored by Eugen Bleuler.

In 1906, Rorschach met a fellow medical student, Olga Stempelin, a girl from Kazan (in the present-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) at the University of Zürich Medical School. Hermann was soon engaged to Olga Stempelin (whom he called his "Lola"), and at the end of 1913, after graduation, he married her; the couple moved to live in Russia thereafter. Together, they had a daughter named Elizabeth who was born to them in 1917, and a son, Wadin, who was born in 1919.

The excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. Wondering why different people often saw entirely different things in the same inkblots, he began, while still a medical student, showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their responses. In 1909, Rorschach graduated and pursued psychiatry in a variety of capacities. Given his knowledge of the Russian language, he accepted a private practice position in Russia which was convenient, as his future wife was living in Russia at the time. However, after a brief stint in that position, he returned to his homeland of Switzerland, and away from his fiancée, worked in a psychiatric hospital. Since he was mentored by Carl Jung, Rorschach gained Freudian (from Sigmund Freud) ideals including the development of psychodynamics.

Achievements and the Rorschach Ink Blot Test

In 1912, Hermann Rorschach published a case concerning a patient who had stolen a horse while in a state of fugue. These dissociative states fascinated Rorschach, and by the year 1917, he had published a case in which he utilized the word association experiment of Jung, free association, and hypnosis for the cure of amnesia. He was also pursuing the interest he had developed in sects, sect leaders, and sect founders. Only one year after writing his book, however, Rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix. He was still Associate Director of the Herisau Hospital when he died at the age of 37, on April 1, 1922. Despite his premature death, his ink blots continue to make an impact on the Psychology community to this day.

Legacy

The Rorschach Inkblot Test is the most well-known contribution Hermann Rorschach made to the field of Psychology and is one of the most iconic tests in the field. Rorschach may not be the first psychoanalyst to experiment with the use of inkblots and what each individual's interpretation of them meant, but he is certainly the most famous for designing the psychoanalytic test after noticing that schizophrenic patients saw very odd images within the blots. To this day, Rorschach's legacy lives on in pop culture, namely his famous inkblot test.

The inkblot test gained recognition when artist Andy Warhol made a painting series entitled Rorschach during the 60's and 70's, in which he created numerous inkblots on canvases in various colors. This led to the inkblot test and the name of Hermann Rorschach becoming more easily recognized. In fact, in the popular late 80's comic book series "The Watchmen", a superhero named Rorschach wears a mask with a constantly morphing image of an inkblot on it. "The Watchmen" was made into a full-length film in 2009, with Jackie Earle Haley playing the roll of Rorschach. The test itself has even been used by a number of companies for advertising purposes. The shampoo brand "Head and Shoulders" used the test to depict what appeared to be an image of a woman's hair flowing around her, with the caption "Whatever you see, you won't see dandruff." Musician Cee Lo Green and his group "Gnarls Barkley" used a multitude of inkblot-like images in their video for the 2006 song "Crazy" to go along with the psychological theme of the song. The inkblots in the video shift continuously, using new images along with some original images of Rorschach's.