A Unique Copy of a Rorschach Test Interpretation Tool (1947)?

JF Ptak Science Books   Post 2721

Yesterday I wrote about a problem I was having in understanding a difficult-to-understand document on applying a computer in creating a bibliography of meteorology from 1949. Today the nature of the object is just completely outside anything I know about, and I thought if I posted something here and other palces in the Great Social Media that someone out there in Webtopia will know exactly what this thing is.

The subject here is a paper by Dr. George Ulett called A Rapid Method of Rorschach Analysis, which was created in 1947. The whole production is obviously home-made, the text being some generation of carbon copy from the typed original, with the “calculator” or rapid-method template being hand made. I can find no evidence in WorldCat/OCLC that this work was published as it stands. I also cannot tell if it was incorporated in a later work. I also cannot tell its utility, but given Dr. Ulett's achievements in the field, and particularly within the Rorschach specialty, he must have seen a use for this tool.

 

And the notes on the reverse of the Rorschach tool:

Notes:

Ulett, George A.: “...former director of the Missouri Division of Mental Diseases where, under his leadership, Missouri went from one of the worst-funded mental health programs to a national leader. He founded what is now the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. He was former medical director of St. Louis City's Malcom Bliss Hospital. He was instrumental in setting up alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs at city and state hospitals. One of his proudest achievements was to bring racial integration to the city's mental health system. He was a professor of psychiatry at Washington University, Directory of Psychiatry at Deaconess Hospital, and was in private practice for over three decades.”from obituary at Legacy dot com

Dr. Ulett was also the author of books and numerous papers, including a number on the Rorschach test, including: Rorschach workbook : a primer for the psychiatrist, with interpretive diagram to permit clinical use while learning the ink-blot test, 1948, and Rorschach introductory manual : a self-teaching primer of Rorschach for the clinical psychiatric worker, 1960.

 (Provenance: Library of Congress, undoubtedly from the author, received May 1947. From the "Pamphlet Collections", and stamped on the title page with the LC/ surplus/duplicate stamp. 11x8.5”, 18, 2, pp, plus a plastic-encased (though retrievable) cardboard hole-punched enumerator for recording Rorschach responses. GVC bound in manila wrappers, both of which are detached, though present.)

Yesterday I wrote about a problem I was having in understanding a difficult-to-understand document on applying a computer in creating a bibliography of meteorology from 1949. Today the nature of the object is just completely outside anything I know about, and I thought if I posted something here and other palces in the Great Social Media that someone out there in Webtopia will know exactly what this thing is.

The subject here is a paper by Dr. George Ulett called A Rapid Method of Rorschach Analysis, which was created in 1947. The whole production is obviously home-made, the text being some generation of carbon copy from the typed original, with the “calculator” or rapid-method template being hand made. I can find no evidence in WorldCat/OCLC that this work was published as it stands. I also cannot tell if it was incorporated in a later work. I also cannot tell its utility, but given Dr. Ulett's achievements in the field, and particularly within the Rorschach specialty, he must have seen a use for this tool.

 

And the notes on the reverse of the Rorschach tool:

Notes:

Ulett, George A.: “...former director of the Missouri Division of Mental Diseases where, under his leadership, Missouri went from one of the worst-funded mental health programs to a national leader. He founded what is now the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. He was former medical director of St. Louis City's Malcom Bliss Hospital. He was instrumental in setting up alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs at city and state hospitals. One of his proudest achievements was to bring racial integration to the city's mental health system. He was a professor of psychiatry at Washington University, Directory of Psychiatry at Deaconess Hospital, and was in private practice for over three decades.”from obituary at Legacy dot com

Dr. Ulett was also the author of books and numerous papers, including a number on the Rorschach test, including: Rorschach workbook : a primer for the psychiatrist, with interpretive diagram to permit clinical use while learning the ink-blot test, 1948, and Rorschach introductory manual : a self-teaching primer of Rorschach for the clinical psychiatric worker, 1960.

 (Provenance: Library of Congress, undoubtedly from the author, received May 1947. From the "Pamphlet Collections", and stamped on the title page with the LC/ surplus/duplicate stamp. 11x8.5”, 18, 2, pp, plus a plastic-encased (though retrievable) cardboard hole-punched enumerator for recording Rorschach responses. GVC bound in manila wrappers, both of which are detached, though present.)