Weeks Topics

Projective Tests
 
Scoring and Interpretation to:

 
Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)
10th
 

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 Dr. Shahid Iqbal
Clinical Psychologist

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 There are 20 TAT cards, but it is common practice to
administer 8-12 selected
 cards. It is advisable to use the same core battery of cards in
a standardized sequence, with cards added based upon the
specific referral question and the “pull” of the card. Organize
the cards in numerical sequence before you begin to
administer the test. Even though some of the cards are
gender-specific, the following combination of cards is
recommended as cards that yield the richest stories:

 Female: 1, 2, 3GF, 4, 6GF, 7GF, 8GF, 13MF,14, 15 and 17GF

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 The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): 30 grayscale pictures
+ one blank for elicitation of stories – each contain a
dramatic event or critical situation

 Most subjects see 10-12 cards, over two sessions

 People would project into their story their needs

 Attention is paid to the protagonist in each story and his/her

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 Storyteller ordinarily identifies with a person
in the story.
 The storyteller’s dispositions, strivings and
conflicts are sometimes represented
symbolically.
 All stories are not of equal importance.
 Themes that arise directly out of card are
less significant than those which are more
indirect.
 Recurrent themes are most important.

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 Multiple scoring systems, none standard
(Murray’s is too cumbersome)
 Interpretation relies on clinical skill and intuition
of the tester.
 Considerations:
◦ Do stories coincide with typical themes?
◦ Conformity with instructions
◦ Repetition/intensity of themes
◦ Sequence of themes (perseveration)
◦ Psychodynamic content
◦ Conflicts

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  Picture 1
 Relationship towards Parents
 Conflict b/w autonomy VS compliance
 Guilt feelings about autonomy
 Achievement
 Symbolic sexual response & Sexual activity
 Castration fear
 Super Ego Anxiety
 Aggression
 Body image & self-image
 Obsessive preoccupations

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  Picture 2
 Family relations
 Conflict b/w autonomy VS compliance
 Oedipal theme & sibling rivalry
 Sexual attitude…homo or hetro?
 Compulsive tendencies
 Aggressive & avoidance phenomenon

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  Picture 3BM
 Latent homosexuality
 Aggression……intra or extra?
 Strength of Super Ego
 Denial
 Depression and Suicide
 Repression
 Body image

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  Picture 3GF
 Depression and Suicide

More effective to use 3BM with girls

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  Picture 4
 Male-female relationship pattern & problems
 Infidelity
 Sexual problem
 Triangular jealousy

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  Picture 5
 Mother relationship
 Fear of masturbation
 Fear of attack
 Fantasies

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  Picture 6GF
 Relationship of female with father
 Aggression

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  Picture 6BM
 Relationship of mother-son
 Oedipal relationship

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  Picture 7BM
 Relationship of father-son
 Authority relationship

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  Picture 7GF
 Relationship of mother-child
 Attitude toward expectancy of children

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  Picture 8BM
 Aggression
 Fear
 Attitude toward authority
 Hostility

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  Picture 8GF
 Contemplative nature
 Relationship

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  Picture 9BM
 Man-to-man relationship
 Homosexual drives
 Social prejudices

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  Picture 9GF
 Depression and suicidal tendencies
 Consideration of Paranoia
 Sexual attack

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  Picture 10
 Relations of men-to-women
 Latent homosexuality
 Latent hostile need

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  Picture 13MF
 Sexual conflicts
 Sex shock experience
 Guilt feelings
 Economic deprivation
 Oral tendencies

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  Picture 15
 Sentiments
 Fear of death
 Depressive tendencies
 Aggression
 Passive fantasies of death
 Guilt feelings
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  Picture 17BM
 Oedipal fears
 Homosexual feelings
 Competitive nature
 Body image

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  Picture 18BM
 Anxiety…..fears
 Homosexual nature

 SO on…………….

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 The Main theme

 The descriptive level

 The interpretive level

 The diagnostic level

 The symbolic level

 The elaborative level

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 The Main hero

 By adequacy

 The body image

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 Main needs and drives of the hero

 Behavioral needs

 Dynamic inferences

 Figures, objects or circumstances introduced

 Figures, objects or circumstances omitted

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 The conception of the environment (World)

 Distorted

 Supportive or unsupportive

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 Figure seen as…….

 Supportive or unsupportive

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 Significant conflicts

 Main conflicts………..

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 Nature of anxieties

 Physical harm or punishment

 Disapproval

 Lack of loss of love

 Being deprived

 Other

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 Main Defenses against conflicts and fears
 Repression
 Denial
 Reaction formation
 Projection
 Introjection
 Regression
 Undoing
 Rationalization
 Displacement
 Other

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 Adequacy of Superego

 Severity of superego……….

 Immediate

 Delayed

 Inhibitions

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 Integration of the ego

 Adequacy of hero
 Outcomes
 Thought process
 Structured…………..unstructured
 Complete……………incomplete
 Appropriate………..inappropriate

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 Intelligence

 Superior…..above average………average……below
average………….defective

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 Needs

 Press

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May ALLAH bless you

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