Rorschach

Rorschach, whose primary interest was in Jungian analysis, began experimenting with inkblots as early as 1911 as a means of determining introversion and extroversion. The Rorschach technique is administered using 10 cards, each containing a complicated inkblot pattern, five in color and five in black and white. Rorschach, improbably, rolled and spun across the screen, fluidly stealing weapons, breaking arms, rolling again: a graceful violent dance of invincibility. Rorschach experts, however, can find a great deal more meaning in these responses than lay people. Wogan knew that it was Linus Pauling's protocol, and took his knowledge of Pauling into account in his interpretations.

Rorschach’s wife was detained from leaving the country by a declaration of war and did not rejoin him in Switzerland until the spring of 1915. Rorschach’s explanation for her husband’s return to Switzerland was that "in spite of his interest in Russia and the Russians, he remained a true Swiss, attached to his native land He was European and intended to remain so at any price" (cited in Pichot, 1984, p. Rorschach held that a person's perceptual responses to inkblots could serve as clues to basic personality tendencies. He published the results of his studies on 300 mental patients and 100 normal subjects in the monograph Psychodiagnostik in 1921. Rorschach is exceptionally strong, although small, and he is a skilled improviser in combat, great in close quarters but also excellent with tactics.