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Active Imagination During the Use of the Rorschach Method^*

Crayford Child Guidance Clinic, Bexleyheath, Kent

^* Paper read at the Meeting of the Child Psychiatry Section of the R.M.P.A. on 3 November, 1949.

ABSTRACT

The Rorschach method is based on the stirrings of imagination.

This process is facilitated by the use of paintings of Rorschach responses.

The ability to create imaginative paintings is especially developed in children.

The imaginative material gained by paintings of Rorschach responses is particularly great when a technique is applied which uses the phenomenon of "active imagination.".

The meaning of this phenomenon, which was described by Jung, is explained, according to various authors.

By the use of active imagination during the performance of the Rorschach test rich analytical material is often revealed.

This is illustrated by examples.