Damion Searls; The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

Damion Searls is a 2012 – 2013 Fellow

In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from Futurism to Dadaism.