Verbal Rorschach Test

Instructions: Measure patient’s response to these statements:

  • I salivate at the sight of mittens.
  • My father was a good woman.
  • My sex life is A-OK.
  • I believe in afterbirth.
  • I often lie to make myself obnoxious.
  • I prefer spiders to lima beans.
  • Chiclets make me sweat.
  • Often, I think I am a special agent of Billy Graham.
  • I become homicidal when people try to reason with me.
  • Sometimes I feel I am persecuting somebody.
  • Policemen love me.
  • I have never been able to put a bagel into overdrive.
  • Boredom excites me.
  • My mother was Erik the Red.
  • Eggplants make me blush.
  • Cannibalism is a small price to pay for popularity.
  • Weeping brings tears to my eyes.
  • I believe I smell as good as most people.
  • Halitosis is part of my style.
  • I would never tell my nickname in a crisis.
  • I always let people get ahead of me at swimming pools.
  • I have taken shoe polish to excess.
  • God rarely answers my letters.
  • As a child I often suffered from bubonic plague.
  • I always cut my hair with an emery board.
  • Sitting in the glove compartment makes me claustrophobic.
  • My nose has suddenly gone blank.
  • It is hard for me to find the right thing to say when I find myself in a room full of cockroaches.
  • Most people do not know how to behave in a massacre.
  • I am afraid of finding myself in a drawer or some other compromising place.
  • I am not threatened by people who want to put my tongue in a paper punch.
  • I am tired of being elected President.
  • I believe in Cincinnati.
  • My parents always faced catastrophes with a song.
  • I think oatmeal is erotic.
  • I have an uncontrollable urge to fondle other people’s teeth.
  • My tonsils frequently come when I whistle.
  • I am piqued when I find a rhinoceros in my bed.
  • The three greatest men who ever lived were Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • Sometimes I believe someone is trying to take over my stomach.
  • I believe there is a plot to make me happy.
  • When I look down from a high place I want to spit.
  • I am often bothered by thoughts of sex while having intercourse.
  • Most of the time I go to sleep without saying “good-bye.”