@article{ref1,
title=""Oh those crazy cards again": a history of the debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946-2001",
journal="Political psychology",
year="2001",
author="Brunner, José",
volume="22",
number="2",
pages="233-261",
abstract="This essay provides a critical history of the debate on the Rorschach Inkblot Tests administered to 22 leading figures of the Third Reich who were imprisoned in Nuremberg in 1945-1946. This debate occurred in two stages. The question at the heart of the first stage was whether the Nazi leaders were sane or psychopaths. Despite a strong disagreement concerning the use of these diagnostic labels, there was a surprisingly broad agreement on the actual substance of the discrepant diagnoses. Divisions of opinion, however, arose from political dissension in two areas: the nature of liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes, and the possibility of trust in any political leadership. The second stage was marked by an ideology of convergence aimed at establishing a consensual &quot;scientific truth&quot; on the Nazi Rorschachs. Thus, the politics of the second phase were motivated by interests and ambitions internal to the field of Rorschach expertise, rather than by extraneous political anxieties.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0162-895X",
doi="10.1111/0162-895X.00237",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0162-895X.00237"
}