| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 231 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Harry's compass / Caroline C. Murray -- pt. I. Introduction. An overview of the Thematic Apperception Test / Lon Gieser and Morris I. Stein -- pt. II. Historical foundations. The zeitgeists and events surrounding the birth of the Thematic Apperception Test / Morris I. Stein and Lon Gieser -- Henry A. Murray and the creation of the Thematic Apperception Test / James William Anderson -- Pioneer experiences in the clinical development of the Thematic Apperception Test / Saul Rosenzweig -- pt. III. Artistic and literary influences. Look homeward, Harry: literary influence on the development of the Thematic Apperception Test / Lon Gieser and Wesley G. Morgan -- The 1943 images: their origin and history / Wesley G. Morgan -- pt. IV. Research and clinical applications. The Thematic Apperception Test: a paradise of psychodynamics / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Empiricism and the Thematic Apperception Test: validity is the payoff / Robert R. Holt -- Linking personality and "scientific" psychology: the development of empirically derived Thematic Apperception Test measures / David G. Miller -- A personological approach to the Thematic Apperception Test / Morris I. Stein -- My perceptions of the Thematic Apperception Test in psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy / Leopold Bellak -- Six decades of the Ballak scoring system, among others / David M. Abrams -- pt. V. Contemporary developments. How the test lives on: extensions of the Thematic Apperception Test approach / David C. McClelland -- Cross-cultural - multicultural use of the Thematic Apperception Test / Richard H. Dana -- The Tell-Me-A-Story Test: a multicultural offspring of the Thematic Apperception Test / Giuseppe Costantino and Robert G. Malgady -- The Thematic Apperception Test and the multivoiced nature of the self / Hubert J.M. Hermans -- pt. IV. Conclusion. A view to the future / Lon Gieser and Morris I. Stein. |
| Summary |
For more than 6 decades, psychologists have been exploring the needs, drives, sentiments, complexes, and conflicts of personality using the TAT. Developed chiefly by Henry A. Murray at the Harvard Psychological Clinic, the TAT has worldwide uses in clinical, military, and industrial settings; neuropsychological assessments; forensic evaluations; and creativity and motivation studies. Yet researchers continue to debate its reliability and validity. Despite the test's wide use and popularity, no consensual scoring system or set of norms exists for the TAT. In this book, contributors retrace the roots of the TAT, along with the circumstances that shaped, and continue to shape, the TAT's rich history, theoretical and empirical grounding, and continued practical value. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Thematic Apperception Test.
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Thematic Apperception Test.
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Personality.
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Projection.
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Psychoanalysis -- history.
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Psychoanalytic Theory.
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| Added Author |
Gieser, Lon.
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Stein, Morris I. (Morris Isaac), 1921-2006.
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Evocative images (print) (DLC) 99025182 |
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