Hermann Rorschach

HERMANN RORSCHACH

Today's Google logo is so unique. There have a words 'share what you see' The logo today is for commemorate Hermann Rorschach.  Today is Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday. He was born on 8 November 1884  in Zürich, Switzerland and died on 1 April 1922 in Herisau, Switzerland. Here is the logo.

  The world 'share what you see' is under the paper and hand but this photo didn't show.

This is Hermann Rorschach. He was psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In 1912, he published his doctoral dissertation. Thereafter, he worked in Russia once year. The rest of his career, he spent in Swiss asylum. He was greatly interested in Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud strongly influenced him to become the promoter of psychoanalysis in all the Swiss psychiatrist. In 1896, Binet and Henri had proposed to use the standardization of ink to measure imagination. He mixed the ideas of Binet and Henri with his word association test. He extended the ink technology to measure the whole personality, especially unconscious emotions. In 1911, he created ten famous symmetrical cards. In 1921, he released his book Psychodiagnostics, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test. This test was available for children and adults. It was mainly based on colour and motion response ratio. The photo below shows the ten inkblot test cards.