ABSTRACT
During the eight years from 1939 to 1947, when I served as Director of the Rorschach Institute before it blossomed into the Society for Projective Techniques, I faced many difficult tasks, as Dr. Bellak so friendly hinted, but never before one as difficult as this, presenting a presidential address. This task is especially formidable in terms of tradition; if you think back to the first years of our organization, for instance, the very first presidential address was Morris Krugman’s “Out of the Inkwell”; the second was Marguerite Hertz’s “Twenty Years After,” shortly after that Marie Rickers presented her address called “Some Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Rorschach Method.” These papers are even now classics among the 3,000 publications on the Rorschach method which have accumulated since then.
