This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a small town in Switzerland in 1917, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach began carefully splattering paint on cards to ...

Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach formalized this idea through the inkblot test he created—he noticed that people with schizophrenia tended to perceive the images differently than did other ...

Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist who invented the eponymous test, was himself a frustrated artist whose high school buddies prophetically nicknamed him Kleck, meaning "inkblot," because of ...