short version ink blots in the USA are not used as diagnosis of mental disorders...

a bit of history....a long time ago someone spilled ink on their blotter (this was back in the days of quill and ink writing) the guy noticed some shapes in the spilled ink and asked others in his community what they saw. some people saw shapes and others did not. those that did see shapes, the shapes were related to what they did, or how they felt..

over time this spill some ink on a paper and see what you see turned into a game. some kids play it in schools and parents started teaching their children how to lay down look at the clouds and what do you see.

more time passes and psychiatrists discovered a pattern of projection. when a person looks at things and makes up a story or tells what they see, the object or story is something related to their life, their emotions...

psychiatrists started showing their patients ink blots just to see what their patients would say. there really is no right or wrong answer and many psychiatrists make up their own ink bot cards by buying ink or paint and splattering it on the cardboard cards, others actually buy pre made ink blots.

so if there is no right or wrong answer what is it showing. its just telling the psychiatrist that you like animals if you see animals, or you work is carpentry if you find tools in the pictures or you are angry if you see angry monsters in the picture....

when I did it one of the pictures looked like a messsy brain, where as the same picture to my wife looked like a kickball, someone else i know who saw the ink blots thought the same picture was a lemon. which is true they all are. I had witnessed a murder, my wife had played kickball with one of her clients and the lemon person is a beverage bar person who makes lemonade.

my point it doesnt diagnose anything just tells you and your psychiatrist what ever you want to project into it.

heres an example if you want to give it a try on your own...

take some water color paint and spill it on some paper. then through out your day look at it and see what shapes you see. what you see in that moment wil most likely reflect how you are feeling at that moment or what you are doing or thinking about ...at that moment....

thats all it is and does. it doesnt tell you whether you have alternate personalities or hallucinations or delusions or mania or any other mental disorder diagnostics.