Rorschach









Rorschach


Rorschach

1927, in reference to a personality test using ink blots, developed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1885-1922). The town so named on the Swiss side of Lake Constance is from an early form of German Röhr “reeds” + Schachen “lakeside.”

Examples from the Web for rorschach Contemporary Examples of rorschach

  • He was a Rorschach test, vaulted into the presidency by positive perceptions and unrealistic expectations.

    Sorry, Michele Bachmann. We Are Ready for a Female President. And It’s Partially Because of You.

    Eleanor Clift

    February 21, 2014

  • “Barack has become a kind of human Rorschach test,” his friend Cassandra Butts told Rolling Stone.

    The Heart and Soul of ‘Glamour’

    Virginia Postrel

    November 9, 2013

  • Looking at the map, of course, offers a political Rorschach test.

    Has Anyone Seen A Map Of E1?

    Gil Troy

    December 27, 2012

  • Mitt Romney is a Rorschach test, with voters seeing what they want to see.

    Moderate Mitt’s Rise and Conservatives’ Cognitive Dissonance

    John Avlon

    October 16, 2012

  • At the moment, Mitt Romney is a Rorschach test, with voters seeing what they want to see.

    Moderate Mitt’s Rise and Conservatives’ Cognitive Dissonance

    John Avlon

    October 16, 2012

  • Historical Examples of rorschach

  • On the Rorschach they had done a little better, at least in volume of response.

    Freudian Slip

    Franklin Abel

  • Call it a Rorschach blot—but even for that, the months of seeing it had made it impossible to see it at all.

    The Trial of Callista Blake

    Edgar Pangborn

  • While the steamboat lay at the wharf at Rorschach, two stout porters came on board, and shouldered his baggage to take it ashore.

    Saunterings

    Charles Dudley Warner

  • Then turning to the boatmen, she bade them “give way” with a will, and pull their best for Rorschach.

    One Of Them

    Charles James Lever

  • It was in this easy chit-chat they sat down to their coffee in the little inn at Rorschach.

    One Of Them

    Charles James Lever

  • rorschach in Medicine Rorschach [rôr′shäk′, -shäKH′]Hermann 1884-1922

    1. Swiss psychiatrist. His inkblot test, introduced in 1921, has become a standard clinical diagnostic tool in psychiatry.
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