Doubts about TAT Another projective tool--the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)--may be as problematic as the Rorschach. This method asks respondents to formulate a story based on ambiguous scenes ...

The little inky blobs had a history as an evaluation for schizophrenic patients before becoming a projective test and eventually ending up as a sight gag splashed across 20th century screens ...

His inkblot test and method was published for the first time in his 1921 book Psychodiagnostik—which appeared less than a year before Rorschach's untimely death of appendicitis at age 37.