The Clinical Application of Phantasy Studies

Projective methods: their origins, theory, and application in personality research.

“…In our times, the indebtedness, to psychoanalysis is becoming somewhat more even. Psychiatrists, including analysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychologists, are going beyond the traditional techniques of free association and dream interpretation,..and are turning with increasing interest to the illuminating and time-saving data which the projective methods appear able to provide (155,156).…”

Frequencies of themes and identifications in the stories of schizophrenic patients and non-hospitalized college students.

“…According to a recent survey it is one of the two most widely used tests of personality [13] and an extensive body of literature concerned with it has accumulated. The validity and reliability of the test have been reasonably well established [4,5,6,9,11,15,21] and much has been written of its clinical applications [10,12,14,18,19]. However, one of the serious deficiencies in the literature is the lack of adequate normative data for the test.…”

“…However, one of the serious deficiencies in the literature is the lack of adequate normative data for the test. Many investigators state different characteristics as representative of the same clinical group and the same characteristics as representative of different clinical groups [10,14,18,19,20]. None of them, however, give frequencies substantiating these diagnostic cues.…”

Personality factors in symptomatic chronic alcoholism as indicated by the Thematic Apperception Test.

“…Clinical experience with this technique has indicated that subjects tend to project their personal problems and conflicts into the phantasy productions. Specific studies of validity have been reported by Masserman and Balken [22], Rotter [31], Harrison [12,13,14], and the literature has been reviewed by Sargent [33] in a discussion of the validity of protective personality test techniques in general.…”