Projective Assessment

1. Front Matter

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2. General Introduction

   1. General Introduction

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 1-3

3. Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research

   1. Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality: A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 5-29

4. The TAT

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. The Thematic Apperception Test: Rationale, Administration, and Interpretation

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 33-76

   3. A Normative Guide to the Use of the TAT Cards

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 77-122

   4. The Nature of TAT Stories as Cognitive-Affective Products: A Psychoanalytic Approach

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 123-149

   5. Formal Aspects of the TAT—A Neglected Resource

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 150-162

   6. A Blind Interpretation of Doe’s TAT

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 163-183

   7. A Blind Interpretation of Jay’s TAT

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 184-208

5. The Rorschach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Gauging Primary and Secondary Processes in Rorschach Responses

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 211-224

   3. Cognitive Controls and Primary Processes

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      Pages 225-233

   4. Creativity and Primary Process: A Study of Adaptive Regression

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      Pages 234-248

   5. Measuring Libidinal and Aggressive Motives and Their Controls by Means of the Rorschach Test

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 249-283

6. Other Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. An Approach to the Validation of the Szondi Test through a Systematic Study of Unreliability

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 287-297

   3. The Accuracy of Self-Evaluations: Its Measurement and Some of Its Personological Correlates

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 298-308

   4. An Inductive Method of Analyzing Defense of Self- Esteem

      • Robert R. Holt

      Pages 309-317

7. Back Matter

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I do not think of myself as primarily interested in method, but in the substance of psychology. Nevertheless, our discipline has such difficulties in coming to grips with its substance that I have found myself getting involved in fww to do it persistently and since the beginning of my career. That career has been divided between diagnosis and research, the balance between them swinging gradually from the former to the latter. To the astonishment of many of my students and colleagues, I have never become a psychotherapist nor a psychoanalyst, though I have looked closely over the shoulders of many friends at their work, have attended continuous case seminars, and have participated in research on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis enough to feel that I have a pretty good grasp of what that kind of endeavor is like. So I have been writing about method, diagnostic and investigative, for over 25 years, and was happy to accept the suggestion of Seymour Weingar­ ten, of Plenum Press, that I publish a collection of these papers. What has ended up as two volumes was originally conceived as one, for I feel that there is more similarity of method in assessment, prediction, and research than appears on the surface. The General Introduction and Chapter 1 of Volume 1 state the point of view of the entire work.

• assessment
• diagnosis
• psychoanalysis
• psychology
• psychotherapy

• Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, New York, USA

  Robert R. Holt

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