Show a little crazy at least scientists make interesting deductions the line between sanity and in insanity becomes vaguer and vaguer the more psychologists try to draw it asserts a writer in the chicago daily news now come dr james vaughn and othilda krug of the university of cincinnati who tell of giving the I 1 rorschach ink blot test to 43 apsy I 1 with paranoid tendencies I 1 and to 52 students at their school and they conclude it is interesting to observe that here and there normal people present original form responses which are probably as indicative of pathology as the original form responses of the psychotics one can hardly escape the conclusion that insanity is a difference in degree and not in kind the degree seems important their observations were reported recently to the american association for the advancement of science the ink blot test consists of dropping some ink onto a paper folding it so that the ink smears into an ir irregular outline and then letting the patient interpret the outline it has been demonstrated to the tion of psychologists that the interpretation pre tation shows characteristics that may be associated with various types of insanity apparently normal people and psychotics resemble one another in many respects the two investigators summed up they present similarities in degree and kind of adjustment intelligence analytical ability and originality stereotypy ideas of persecution and grandeur and introversion and extraversion the report reports the psychotics the psychologists continued in leading to their conclusion present evidence of greater dissociation and less rapport with environment but it is surprising to find so many apparently normal people presenting similar tendencies |