Projective Assessment

"I do not think of myself as primarily interested in method, but in the substance of psychology. Nevertheless, our discipline has such difficulties in coming to grips with its substance that I have found myself getting involved in fww to do it persistently and since the beginning of my career. That career has been divided between diagnosis and research, the balance between them swinging gradually from the former to the latter. To the astonishment of many of my students and colleagues, I have never become a psychotherapist nor a psychoanalyst, though I have looked closely over the shoulders of many friends at their work, have attended continuous case seminars, and have participated in research on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis enough to feel that I have a pretty good grasp of what that kind of endeavor is like. So I have been writing about method, diagnostic and investigative, for over 25 years, and was happy to accept the suggestion of Seymour WeingarƯ ten, of Plenum Press, that I publish a collection of these papers. What has ended up as two volumes was originally conceived as one, for I feel that there is more similarity of method in assessment, prediction, and research than appears on the surface. The General Introduction and Chapter 1 of Volume 1 state the point of view of the entire work"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xv General Introduction....Pages 1-3 Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research....Pages 5-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 The Thematic Apperception Test: Rationale, Administration, and Interpretation....Pages 33-76 A Normative Guide to the Use of the TAT Cards....Pages 77-122 The Nature of TAT Stories as Cognitive-Affective Products: A Psychoanalytic Approach....Pages 123-149 Formal Aspects of the TAT—A Neglected Resource....Pages 150-162 A Blind Interpretation of Doe’s TAT....Pages 163-183 A Blind Interpretation of Jay’s TAT....Pages 184-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Gauging Primary and Secondary Processes in Rorschach Responses....Pages 211-224 Cognitive Controls and Primary Processes....Pages 225-233 Creativity and Primary Process: A Study of Adaptive Regression....Pages 234-248 Measuring Libidinal and Aggressive Motives and Their Controls by Means of the Rorschach Test....Pages 249-283 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 An Approach to the Validation of the Szondi Test through a Systematic Study of Unreliability....Pages 287-297 The Accuracy of Self-Evaluations: Its Measurement and Some of Its Personological Correlates....Pages 298-308 An Inductive Method of Analyzing Defense of Self- Esteem....Pages 309-317 Back Matter....Pages 319-344