Rorschach Test

The test of Rorschach consists of 10 inblotted cards. These cards are the last cards selected by Hermann Rorschach among hundreds of them. In this selection the main aim was that they had to be concrete and not very clear. Every card include in itself; shape, colour, movement and shadow. While the cards numbered 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 are dark coloured and black and white, 2 and 3 are black and white and red, 8, 9, 10 are coloured. All of them are symmetrical and around an axis. This axis is obvious in 1, 4, 5, 6, 9 but in 2, 3, 7, 8, symmetry is clear in a mirror or repetitious shape. The cards that we can name intensive as a whole make reference to body image and the cards like a mirror shape make reference to object relations and interpersonal representations.

Rorschach, instead of giving information appropriate to psychiatric classifications, is a functional approach. Instead of considering everyone in the same classification, we must bear in mind that patients are different. Another point is that one test isnt enough to evaluate TAT and Rorschach when given together are very helpful in evaluating in a broad perspective. Rorschach can be applied to 7-70 age group and besides patient population this test can be used in pedopsychiatry, geriatrics, neurology and even in the army.

One of the important points about Rorschach is that the meaning of the diagnostic is the evaluation of the personality not a labelling. Test information provided from the patient is crucial in the therapeutic work.