Psychiatry. XIII, 1950: Projection and Its Relation to Character Attitudes and Creativity in the Kinesthetic Responses. Contributions to an Understanding of Rorschach's Test, IV. Ernest G. Schachtel. Pp. 69–100.

The capacity for inner creation and basic character attitudes are linked to kinesthetic perception in Rorschach's concept of the movement response. Yet relatively little is known today about the kinesthetic responses and little use is made of the significant diagnostic material which detailed analyses of them can yield. Schachtel reports some observations and offers some hypotheses concerning their nature and diagnostic significance and the psychological processes underlying them.

Briefly the general theses are: 1, a tendency in the individual person to view others and the environment in his own likeness—in an 'automorphic' way; 2, the automorphic view of the environment is the mechanism of projection; 3, the process of projection takes place outside of awareness but the content of projection may or may not be known to the person as part of himself; 4, projection can serve constructive as well as defensive purposes, can be normal as well as pathological. It plays a role in every act of empathic understanding and in such cases need not be distorting.

A long list of Rorschach theses is appended.