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Active Imagination During the Use of the Rorschach Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. Wellisch
E. Wellisch*
Affiliation:
Crayford Child Guidance Clinic, Bexleyheath, Kent
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The Rorschach personality test is based on the stirrings of imagination. The interpretation of the structureless inkblots by the tested person stimulates his imagination in such a way that he projects his inner thoughts into the responses. Imagination is not merely one of the functions of a personality, but it is an expression of the personality as a whole. Medieval thinkers have described this by calling imagination “the star of man,” by which they meant the essence of his personality. This is the reason why the Rorschach method is a valid test for the assessing of personality.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 403 , April 1950 , pp. 476 - 483
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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