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Open to Interpretation…The Art and Science of Inkblots
Ashland, OH: Hogrefe, 2009
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Principles of Neuropsychology
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2008
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Military Psychology: Clinical and Operational Applications
New York, NY: Guilford, 2006
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The Quest for
the Nazi Personality

Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995

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Neuropsychological Assessment and Intervention
Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas, 1992
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THE QUEST FOR THE NAZI PERSONALITY:
A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals

Eric A. Zillmer, Molly Harrower, Barry A. Ritzler, & Robert P. Archer
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995

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How did he generate the particular inkblots we have now? And why did he introduce color? The popular image of the Rorschach blot never has color.

Early on, Rorschach thought that color could play a role in how people relate to their emotions. So we talk about singing the blues, or seeing red as in being angry. The colors are sort of an entrée to saying something pathological that the patient might not have wanted to say. So color responses are thought to be related to the emotional life of an individual particularly how one experiences and modulates one's mental or emotional life. Of course as a psychologist we are very interested in an individual's emotional life.

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