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...avoid tipping off future test subjects, the two main sets of H.I.T. (Holtzman Inkblot Technique) patterns are not widely published. The two sets are interchangeable, and the second set is used for retesting a patient to gauge his progress through therapy. A third, unpublished set of 45 cards, used for explaining the method, gives an intimate glimpse of the technique...
...what a subject sees, or thinks he sees, in a given blot depends on the same basic principle that underlies the Rorschach: that what seem, superficially, to be chance associations actually reveal a subject's emotional makeup and deep unconscious aspects of his personality. Because most of the inkblot patterns are as symmetrical as animals or as human beings themselves, most test subjects are likely to spot anatomical images-bosoms, buttocks and even more frankly sexual symbols-where the lines converge in mid-blot. It is up to the tester to judge how far removed from reality a subject...
...have little to worry about. But the interpretation, "A fat cannibal king with two pregnant women," says Holtzman, "is rich with hostility toward women." A schizophrenic response: "Those things on the side look like charred tree trunks-only they're pregnant." A single offbeat response to a single inkblot, says Dr. Holtzman. "leaves the psychologist up in the air. You may have a guy who suppresses Charles Addams tendencies under a peaceful exterior, or he may really be a peaceful little guy who has a Charles Addams imagination. And that isn't bad. Because our technique relies...
...Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Appel copped the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the fattest of all international art prizes, for a violent, swirling abstraction called Woman with Ostrich, in which neither woman, nor ostrich was particularly recognizable except to those who have been overexposed to the Rorschach inkblot tests. At the Martha Jackson Gallery a few blocks south, 28 other Appel canvases hung last week, all looking as if they had been done in a rage...
...puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never come back to me." Columnist Herb Caen, the Boswell of the Bay, says: "They all say the same...