A review by camilleisreading24
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and The Power of Seeing by Damion Searls

4.0

Very interesting!! For someone without much background knowledge in the history of psychology and famous psych studies, I found this very readable and informative. The first half of the book is a biography of Hermann Rorschach, and describes his experiments and how he developed the ink blots. I didn't know he died so young and that chapter was a kick in the stomach because I was really enjoying learning about him and reading the transcripts of letters and papers he'd written.

The second half of the book, which I found slightly less engaging, was about how the ink blots changed after his death. There was also a more general history of the study of psychology, with tangents about Freud and Jung, and how they felt about the ink blots.

I won this in a giveaway and enjoyed it a lot! And I succeeded in reading nonfiction that WASN'T true crime so go me!