Projective psychology and the Institute of Psychology: a double centenary

The celebration of the centenary of the Institute of Psychology coincides with the celebration of the centenary of the publication of the famous test created by Hermann Rorschach (1921) and the centenary of the death of the latter (1922). Moreover, the Institute of Psychology has a close and long-standing relationship with projective psychology, since it was here that Daniel Lagache organized the first academic seminar on the study of the test in 1951, and that the first Certificate of Training in Projective Techniques was created ten years later. Since then, profound reforms of the Rorschach method have been carried out, among others by the “French School of Projective Psychology” or “School of Paris of Projective Psychology”. The involvement of the teacher-researchers of the PCPP laboratory of the Institute of Psychology is perennial and internationally recognized in terms of the high-level training of psychologists, the rigor of clinical research, the organization of scientific events and editorial productions.