Which web site features the rorschach test online?”
In the past days, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been overwhelmed in a livid debate involving psychologists who are angry that the 10 original Rorschach plates are reproduced online, along with common responses for each. Psychiatrists blasted online, after the website posted the Rorschach test photos and consequent common answers, insisting the site has given patients a cheat sheet.
The Rorschach Inkblot Test According to John Exner (1993), the first publication of Hermann Rorschach’s 10 inkblots was in 1921 as a monograph, Psychodiagnostik. For the 1940’s and 1950’s, the Rorschach was the test of choice in clinical psychology. It fell into disfavor as many clinicians began criticizing it as “subjective” and “projective” in nature. Ironically, this was never the intention of Rorschach. While working in a psychiatric hospital with adolescents, he noticed that certain children gave characteristically different answers to a popular game known as blotto (Klecksographie). In his original publication he characterized the blots as a “Form Interpretation Test, and cautioned that his findings were preliminary and stressed the importance of much more experimentation” (Exner, 1993, p. 6). Sadly, Rorschach died in 1922 at the age of 37. He had only invested just under four years in his inkblot test. With no clear leader to take the helm, at least four separate “systems” devel
