interesting history of the Rorschach test. See too The Inkblot Record, a poem by Dan Farrell.

"When practitioners of a quasi-medical fad exempt themselves from answerability to empirical trials, one usual consequence is a proliferation of alternative schools. By the late 1950s, Wood reports, no fewer than five American Rorschach regimens were current, not to mention other inkblot tests that heretically departed from the original cards. Credentialled psychologists, rapidly increasing in number but not in methodological sophistication, felt free to draw upon all five incompatible codes as if they were passing down the line at a salad bar. To the increasingly restive dissenters, what had been true all along was now overwhelmingly apparent: the Rorschach was a revealing projective test not of its respondents' quirks but of the preconceptions held by its advocates."