title: Ezra Pound's Rorschach diagnosis.
abstract: The 1946 Rorschach protocol of poet Ezra Pound was given blind to three clinical psychologists to see whether interpretations of this historic document would give perspective to the controversy that surrounded his hospital commitment as unfit to stand trial for his treasonous radio broadcasts during World War II. The psychologists found greater psychopathology and defect in Pound's functioning than was generally observed when he was originally tested, and they predicted the psychotic-organic depression that occurred after the poet's discharge 12 years later.
authors.affiliation: Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Washington University School of Medicine, DC.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Gillman
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000266:history; D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012392:Rorschach Test; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare