THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT)
This is a complete set of the 31 cards in a sun faded folio. The TAT is a popular projective test developed about a decade later than the roschacks to explore the patient's subconcious. This set has the previous owner's name on the cover and a small inked stamp of "Dr. Adalbert Wegeler, Fachpsyologe" on the back of each plate. Does not come with directions. The sun fading and font on back leads me to estimate that these are from around the 1950's. They are undated. The pictures are in superb condition which makes me wonder if they have ever been used. Here is more info about the test from Wikipedia:
TAT was developed by the American psychologists Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan at Harvard during the 1930s to explore the underlying dynamics of personality, such as internal conflicts, dominant drives, interests, and motives.
After World War II, the TAT was adopted more broadly by psychoanalysts and clinicians to evaluate emotionally disturbed patients.
Later, in the 1970s, the Human Potential Movement encouraged psychologists to use the TAT to help their clients understand themselves better and stimulate personal growth.
The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique because it uses a standard series of 30 provocative yet ambiguous pictures about which the subject must tell a story. In the case of adults and adolescents of average intelligence, a subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as they can for each picture, including:
- what has led up to the event shown
- what is happening at the moment
- what the characters are feeling and thinking, and
- what the outcome of the story was.
For children or individuals of limited cognitive abilities, instructions ask that the subject tell a story including what happened before and what is happening now, what the people are feeling and thinking and how it will come out.
The 30 cards are meant to be divided into two "series" of 15 pictures each, with the pictures of the second series being purposely more unusual, dramatic, and bizarre than those of the first. Suggested administration involves one full hour being devoted to a series, with the two sessions being separated by a day or more.
Several cards in the test are present in order to ensure that the subject is able to be provided with cards picturing individuals of the same gender. Eleven cards (including the blank card) have been found suitable for both sexes, by portraying no human figures, an individual of each sex, or an individual of ambiguous gender.
These tests are much more difficult to find on Ebay (or otherwise) than other Projective Tests. Suitable for collecting, framing or gifting.
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