Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics

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This wonderful work is a masterful replacement for the 1942 English translation of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics. This book will enrich all English-speaking Rorschach users. For anyone who owns the former translation, it is a must-have replacement!; Gregory J. Meyer, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Toledo, OH, USA; Co-Developer, Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS); This new and innovative English edition of Psychodiagnostics has been translated, edited, and annotated with great care, making this an enjoyable read. New chapters and annotations written by the editors provide important insights into the creation and history of Rorschach's theoretical model as well as little-known facts about Hermann Rorschach himself, while also encouraging readers to see familiar concepts in a new light. It is sure to promote renewed interest in Rorschach's method and ideas, which are still relevant today."; Fernando Silberstein, PhD, President of the International Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods (ISR); "The need for a new English-language edition of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics that meets today's linguistic and historical standards has been brilliantly fulfilled by the scholarly team of translators and editors, who provide scrupulous explanations for their translations of key Rorschach terminology and a wealth of intriguing contextualizing information. ";Mark S. Micale, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; I would strongly recommend this book to all Rorschach users. It provides a description of Hermann Rorschach and of the cultural and scientific background in which the test was created, and is written in a language adapted to contemporary psychological thinking. The central part is the new translation of the Hermann Rorschach masterpiece Psychodiagnostics (1921), which is presented in a fresh, relatable, and clear language. But it is much more than that. The authors include additional relevant material that goes well beyond the translation ... the biography of Hermann Rorschach, an analysis of the writings that preceded the 1921 book, a translation of a lecture by Hermann Rorschach on the relationship between the test and psychoanalysis that was published right after the publication of the book, a glossary collecting the terms used in the translation, a list of publications from Hermann Rorschach, and a section on the annotations to the translation. The amount of material included in this volume speaks of the monumental effort made by the authors to provide readers with the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date publication possible.; Filippo Aschieri, PhD, European Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, in Rorschachiana (2022), 43, 89-94; In the 1947 translation of Rorschach's work, the translation method resulted in rendering the text in a word-by-word way. As a result, all the semantics of the original language were lost. We have here a "New Rorschach." This is a masterful piece in translation [that] recreates the full world of meanings that the original German text conveys. The result is a [like] a painting that has been cleaned of varnish and patina and makes it possible to rediscover the painting anew, with the full vivacity and palette of its colors, while having at the same time a feeling of being on a firm, well-known ground.The centerpiece is the English translation, with its best rendering of the deep meanings expressed by Rorschach. But all the material that frames this translation, from the introductory biography and genesis of sychodiagnostik to Rorschach's preparatory publications and explanatory notes, transforms this translation into a complete file on Rorschach's method.; Alain Touwaide, PhD, Ronin Institute, in Doody's Reviews (September 2022);