Test that can have you seeing things

Usage examples of rorschach.

Hair, blood, and brains splashed a Rorschach on the wall behind the chair, where a 3D foldout girl was spreading eternal legs over a varnished mahogany bedpost.

The resulting patterns are black and white vertical and horizontal bands that, like Rorschach inkblots, evoke different imaginative associations, depending on who is looking at them.

Our experience with Rorschach and other psychological projective tests is that different people see the same nonrepresentational image in different ways.

I must reiterate that the polyvalence -- the almost unbounded permissiveness -- of interpretation is essentially of the same nature as that of Rorschach tests.

Rorschach blots interpreted by the patient had become Rorschach blobs manipulated unconsciously by the patient, and Phillips could classify the crew members with certainty: schizoids, cycloids, paranoids, homosexuals, sadists, incipient homicides psychopaths.

Reading the earlier reports and analyzing their measurements and observations made Darya feel that the Anfract was like a gigantic Rorschach test.

Alerted by an attack of nausea and vertigo (and such an attack does not now seem to [her] an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968'), Miss Didion enrolled as a private outpatient of the psychiatric clinic at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.

The splattered blood was like a Rorschach, a dark red pattern of smears and exclamation marks where the force of the blows had flung blood in two tracks across the wall.

Walsh, Soneji/Murphy had taken Wechsler Adult, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and Rorschach tests.

Prof Nemur says I have to take a Rorschach Test the day after tomorrow.

I reveal to you the greatest biological achievement of all time and you probably want me to take another Rorschach test.

It is a kind of cosmic Rorschach test, in which many people see reflected their hopes and fears, their aspirations and defeats –.

The value of a Rorschach test lies in what it tells us about ourselves.

And in a Rorschach test, you're supposed to describe what the blots look like.

In the Rorschach Test, for instance, I had interpreted each blot and picture as full of crashing, banging, jagged machinery designed from the start of time to swing into frantic, lethal motion with the intention of doing me bodily injury.