
What do your associations with these ink blot images reveal about your personality?
So, how does this test work?
The Ink Blot test is a very famous personality test. It involves having an evaluation of the subject when he or she responds to an abstruse image. Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, published this test in 1921. From a very early age, Rorschach had known that when he grows up, he will become a doctor. But it was at the age of 19 that his views changed, and in a letter to his sister, he wrote: “I never again want to read just books, I want to read people … The most interesting thing in nature is the human soul, and the greatest thing a person can do is to heal these souls, sick souls.”
Between 1917 and 1920, Rorschach experimented with about more than forty inkblots, so that he could understand the underlying phenomenon of schizophrenia (dementia praecox). The syndrome had recently been identified amongst the people and his mentor Eugen Bleuler; a Swiss psychiatrist described it as a lethal disease. The idea was a bit different from the general perception. These images were not just ink blots on a white paper which was folded in half and reopened. Instead, the creative Rorschach has invested his artistic skills to polish and augment the final image so that every image had unique contours suggesting some object or appearance to the people who look at it. What he was interested was in the perceptual processes that revealed what people could visualize and analyzing the content of that personal perception
Eventually, he selected a set of twelve inkblots. These were considered as the most suitable for identifying and eliciting the individual’s characteristics for personality. Although this was good news, the production of these inkblots was quite expensive, because of this Rorschach had to select the best ten and omitted two images.
Every inkblot image appears on a pure white background. The set of ten images consists of, five gray and black images; two red, gray and black images the rest three are a combination of different pastel colors but no black.
The people’s response to the Inkblot Test by Rorschach was interpreted on the psychoanalytical theory, but over the period, the investigators have begun to use in an empirical technique. At an empirical evaluation of this test, the response quality is directly linked to personality measurements.
This test gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s as clinical psychologists began using them for testing minds. However, it quickly lost the esteem as people criticized it for being a bit too subjective. Since that time, a few variations were developed in the inkblot test as the Somatic Inkblot Series and the Holtzman Inkblot Test, which regained the test’s lost image.
The psychologist to examine the emotional functioning and personality characteristics of an individual usually use the InkBlot Test. With its use, the underlying mental disorders could easily be detected, mostly in cases where there was a reluctance from the patient’s side to discuss their thought process openly.
The Inkblot Test is most suitable for subjects that are at least five years old. It must be taken in a relaxed environment, where one can focus on the images alone.
The test is going to reveal the things that are most important to you in life and with those significant values are attached. The test is a very simple one, but its results are a reflection of your emotional state of mind.
Fear

Pick the image that reflects the word in the best way.
Passion

Youth

Innocence

Sexuality

Beauty

War

Nature

Power

Sadness
