Rorschach inkblot test

[Marble]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work, I mean how can a psychologist know if a person is healthy or not by his interpretation of these inkblots?
Clearly, if someone interprets each picture as "That's my dad stabing my mom to death" this person has a problem.
But I think that most interpretations, also those of people with mental problems, are not so extreme.
So how does that work?
And how many of these inkblot pictures do exist?

 

[Revoltingest]

Inkblot tests are silly.
Since each & everyone looks like bacon or jerky, what's the point?

 

[dawny0826]

Are they actually utilizing these tests? There's something about them that seems rather outdated to me.

 

[Iti oj]

they say a lot about the symbolism and thoughts and views of a person

 

[Reptillian]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work, I mean how can a psychologist know if a person is healthy or not by his interpretation of these inkblots?
Clearly, if someone interprets each picture as "That's my dad stabing my mom to death" this person has a problem.
But I think that most interpretations, also those of people with mental problems, are not so extreme.
So how does that work?
And how many of these inkblot pictures do exist?

There are probably standard interpretations, like the average person might commonly see a butterfly or a face in a certain blot...but yeah, I think they're looking more to filter out the people who say things like, "Its my fat uncle eating up all the world's happiness"

 

[LegionOnomaMoi]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work

It doesn't.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

 

[CynthiaCypher]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work, I mean how can a psychologist know if a person is healthy or not by his interpretation of these inkblots?
Clearly, if someone interprets each picture as "That's my dad stabing my mom to death" this person has a problem.
But I think that most interpretations, also those of people with mental problems, are not so extreme.
So how does that work?
And how many of these inkblot pictures do exist?

It is not a test to determine mental health but to get insight of a persons subconscious

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Are they actually utilizing these tests? There's something about them that seems rather outdated to me.

Only in psychoanalyst.

 

[The Neo Nerd]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work, I mean how can a psychologist know if a person is healthy or not by his interpretation of these inkblots?
Clearly, if someone interprets each picture as "That's my dad stabing my mom to death" this person has a problem.
But I think that most interpretations, also those of people with mental problems, are not so extreme.
So how does that work?
And how many of these inkblot pictures do exist?

They are used to get an insight to a persons mind.

It reminds me of a joke.

A man goes to a shrink and he administers a Rorschach test.

"What does this inkblot look like?" the shrink said.
"A naked chick"
"This one?"
"A pair of boobs"
"This one?"
"Two people having sex"
"Sir i think you are obsessed with sex" the shrink said.
"ME, you're the one with all the dirty pictures"

 

[Flankerl]

"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*!"

 

[Yerda]

I've always wanted to take one of those tests to say things like:

"That's the head orchid handing over the keys to the city while doing the mating dance of the common office paperclip. Quite against tradition."

Admittedly I worry slightly about my motivation.

 

[Uragand-2]

I've always wanted to take one of those tests to say things like:

"That's the head orchid handing over the keys to the city while doing the mating dance of the common office paperclip. Quite against tradition."

Admittedly I worry slightly about my motivation.

If I every took the inkblot test I would be inclined to say that it looks like "bad art".

 

[The Neo Nerd]

I'd point at the picture and start screaming uncontrollably then curl up in a ball and start whimpering.

That'd give them something to think about.

 

[Marble]

The guy on that picture got a cake in his face.

 

[Viker]

"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*!"

If I ever go to jail, I'll have to steal this quote.

 

[Viker]

Inkblot tests are silly.
Since each & everyone looks like bacon or jerky, what's the point?

Are you sure about all that? Cos I've seen bacon and women's no-no parts. I once saw the front end of a Harley surrounded by women's no-no parts when I was 12, no bacon - which is kind of odd.

 

[Alex_G]

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work, I mean how can a psychologist know if a person is healthy or not by his interpretation of these inkblots?
Clearly, if someone interprets each picture as "That's my dad stabing my mom to death" this person has a problem.
But I think that most interpretations, also those of people with mental problems, are not so extreme.
So how does that work?
And how many of these inkblot pictures do exist?

Its an example of a 'projective' personality test. That is it works around the idea that given an ambiguous situation or image, a person might project aspects of their inner feelings or thoughts onto it. These sorts of tests tend to be in contrast to 'objective' tests, which are those that are objectively scored as opposed to relying on an interpretation, such examples are questionnaires that ask things like 'do you see yourself as....? 1. i agree completely, 2. i partially agree, 3. i dont know, and so on.

I think the projective tests are quite ingenious really. Its a mistake to think their somehow magically going to uncover some fundamental aspect of a person, or on their own be adequate in coming to a complete conclusion of a persons personality. I think peoples general feel regarding these sorts of 'tests' and finding out 'who we really are' is quite revealing about our culture of expectation. They are only a tool at the end of the day, and only one bit of information in the constellation of data that one needs to collate and interpret when assessing a persons character. A means of getting to deeper rooted things that might not be coming out in simple conversation, and counselling.

Interpretation of ink blot tests will be validated by comparison to the general population, and reference to archetypical personalities within whatever system of understanding of personalities you subscribe to. Such that if you show it to someone, and you cant seem to get them out of the top right corner, where they constantly comment of the very specific details of one tiny bit of the image, you could correlate this to an obsessive/compulsive personality.

Alex