New Delhi: Many of us who would have never been to a psychiatrist's but have tried our own versions of an inkblot test. November 8, 2013 is the 129th birth anniversary of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychiatrist who devised the test that bears his name. Because of his love for sketching while at school he was nicknamed Kleck which means inkblot.
Hermann Rorschach was born on November 8, 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his MD from the University of Zürich in 1912. Inspired by the work of another Swiss psychiatrist Szyman Hens, Rorschach began his experiments with 15 accidental inkblots. He showed the blots and asked them what it might be? Depending on their responses he got some cues that according to him could bring to light deeper personality traits.
Rorschach died at the young age of 37 on April 1, 1922.
The Rorschach inkblot test doodle lets users share their own interpretations of the several random inkblots to Google+, Facebook and Twitter, while Hermann Rorschach sits on a chair on the background taking notes with a pen and paper.
The shared link displays the corresponding inkblot within the doodle.
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