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Originally Posted by william
Okay Doc - I have one for you: I'm a regular joe, working the 9-5 (as much as retail can).  I had a psych eval, and was told that I have an over-active imagination.  I do my job and get along fine in all aspects of my life. When shown the Roschach (?) pictures, they asked what I saw, and I answered. 
Growing up, it was a point to let your imagination go - has that ended? If I would have known, I would have given a bone-headed response.
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What was their recommendation for your over-active imagination? Were you told to tone it down?
As another post points out, the Rorschach sucks. The only thing it might possibly do is tell you if somebody is flat out nuts, psychotic, etc. If you see a dead person in every picture, then there's a problem with you. If you see sex in every picture, then there's a problem with you. If you see a variety of things in the pictures, then you are probably fine.
That is one of many "projective" techniques which are psychologists' attempts to get at some of the more basic areas of the brain. It's just a technique and a weak one at that, at getting at some of the more basic processes in the brain. There are others which are slightly better and more commonly used (the Rorschach is out of favor for the most part now) such as the Draw a Person task and the Kinetic Family Drawing task. Rather than looking at pictures, the client is asked to draw a picture. There are scales for interpreting what all of that means. I use those tasks for some of my clients and I have some concerns when I interpret them. Unless something comes out in multiple areas, I won't say anything about the supposed sexual aspects of this part of a drawing, etc.