Hermann Rorschach

<p>Hermann Rorschach was born on November 8, 1884, in Zürich, Switzerland. Known as 'Klex' in youth for his skill with inkblots, he studied medicine under Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli Mental Hospital, working closely with early psychoanalytic theory.</p><p>Rorschach systematically investigated how patients with schizophrenia and healthy individuals perceived ambiguous shapes. In 1921, he published <em>Psychodiagnostik</em>, presenting ten standardized inkblot cards to evaluate subconscious personality traits, emotional controls, and cognitive processes. He died prematurely at age thirty-seven in 1922, leaving an immortal legacy in projective psychology.</p>