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A Method of Scoring the T.A.T. Applied to Psychoneurotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Graham Foulds
Graham Foulds*
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
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“The T.A.T. draws forth no more than twenty small samples of the subject's thought. To suppose these will invariably provide a skeleton of total personality is unduly optimistic” (6). With this warning no experienced clinical psychologist is likely to disagree. The present aim has been to provide a method of analysing and quantifying the content of the responses which minimizes dependence on hypotheses derived from outside the test situation and to relate the results to the amount produced and, more particularly, to the rate of production.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 415 , April 1953 , pp. 235 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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