Ever looked at an inkblot and wondered what it might reveal about you? Turns out, those seemingly random blobs of ink aren’t just for artists – they are windows into the workings of your mind.

Herman Rorschach originally developed the inkblot test to assess patients for schizophrenia, because he observed that people with schizophrenia tended to interpret the images differently than ...

If you buy into pop culture, psychologists either sit next to a patient lying on a chaise, or flip through a series of inkblots and asking: “What do you see?” Swiss psychologist Hermann ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a small town in Switzerland in 1917, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach began carefully splattering paint on cards to ...