PSYCHOLOGIST

Hermann Rorschach

1884 - 1922

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Hermann Rorschach (Swiss Standard German: [ˈhɛrman ˈroːrʃaχ]; 8 November 1884 – 2 April 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality. His method has come to be referred to as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders. Rorschach continued to refine the test until his premature death at age 37. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Rorschach is the 36th most popular psychologist (down from 31st in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 34th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Hermann Rorschach is most famous for developing the Rorschach inkblot test, a projective personality test which is used to detect underlying thought disorders.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hermann Rorschach ranks 36 out of 235. Before him are Alfred Binet, Karen Horney, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, and Paul Ekman. After him are Jerome Bruner, Hans Eysenck, Albert Ellis, Eric Berne, John Bowlby, and Lawrence Kohlberg.

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Among people born in 1884, Hermann Rorschach ranks 23. Before him are Friedrich Bergius, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Theodor Svedberg, Franz Halder, Gaston Bachelard, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After him are Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, and Rudolf Bultmann. Among people deceased in 1922, Hermann Rorschach ranks 12. Before him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Enver Pasha, Erich von Falkenhayn, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ernest Shackleton, and Djemal Pasha. After him are Walther Rathenau, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ernest Solvay, Georges Sorel, and Vittorio Monti.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach ranks 59 out of 1,015. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), and Henry Fuseli (1741). After him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Michel Mayor (1942), Johannes Itten (1888), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Werner Arber (1929), and Hans Küng (1928).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach ranks 3. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), and Jean Piaget (1896). After him are Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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