Handbook of projective techniques

Basic

1965

XXIV, 934 p.

Contents: 1. Projective methods for the study of personality --2. Theoretical considerations concerning the scope and limitations of projective techniques --3. The trend in motivational theory --4. Assumptions, adaptation level, and projective techniques --5. Variability of responses and the stability of scores and interpretations of projective protocols --6. Problems in the validation of projective techniques --7. Structured and projective tests : some common problems in validation --8. Ambiguity and nonambiguity in projective testing --9. Social class and projective tests --10. Unity of science begins at home : a study of regional factionalism in clinical psychology --11. The influence of situational and interpersonal variables in projective testing --12. A quantitative study of perception and association in experimental semistarvation --13. The validity of personality-trait ratings based on projective techniques --14. Reliability --15. The role of the stimulus in Rorschach responses --16. Relationships between Rorschach scoring categories and the total number of responses --17. A comparative analysis of Rorschach forms with altered stimulus characteristics --18. An attempt to sort Rorschach records from four cultures --19. Rorschach summary scores in differential diagnosis --20. The projection of hostility on the Rorschach and as a result of ego-threat --21. The relationship between certain examiner personality variables and subjects' Rorschach scores --22. Statistical methods applied to Rorschach scores : a review --23. Factor analyses of the Rorschach test --24. A brief description of the Holtzman ink blot test --25. Uses of the thematic apperception test --26. Thematic apperceptive measurement of motives within the context of a theory of motivation --27. Levels of prediction from the thematic apperception test --28. A normative study of the thematic apperception test --29. The stimulus --30. The thematic apperception test and antisocial behavior --31. Projective measurement of experimentally induced levels of sexual motivation --32. Thematic apperception test : indexes of aggression in relation to measures of overt and covert behavior --33. Thematic apperception test : a tentative appraisal of some "signs" of anxiety --34. The relationship between overt and fantasy aggression as a function of maternal response to aggression --35. Empirical evaluations of human figure drawings --36. Critique of Swensen's "Empirical evaluations of human figure drawings" --37. A factor analysis of draw-a-person test scores --38. The differentiation of human figure drawings --39. Eye-ear emphasis in the draw-a-person test as indicating ideas of reference --40. Signs of homosexuality in human figure drawings --41. The goodenough draw-a-man test and signs of maladjustment in kindergarten children --42. Hostility as a factor in the clinician's personality as it affects his interpretation of projective drawings (H-T-P) --43. The Bender-Gestalt : a review and a perspective --44. The effectiveness of clinicians' judgments : the diagnosis of organic brain damage from the Bender-Gestalt test --45. The effectiveness of the Bender-Gestalt test in differential diagnosis --46. The use of Bender-Gestalt cutoff scores in identifying juvenile delinquents --47. The clinical validity of the Bender-Gestalt test with children : a developmental comparison of children in need of psychotherapy and children judged well adjusted --48. The Bender-Gestalt test and learning disturbances in young children --49. A review of sentence completion methods in personality assessment --50. The relative effect on projective responses of stimuli referring to the subject and of stimuli referring to other persons --51. The effect of mental set and item structure on response to a projective test --52. Validation of the Rotter incomplete sentence test --53. The reliability and validity of the Rotter incomplete sentences test --54. Productivity of clinical hypotheses on a sentence completion test --55. The stability of interpretations of sentence completion tests --56. The prediction of the psychiatric patient's work adjustment.

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