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The article reports that not many years ago, Rorschach's test was conceived largely as a diagnostic instrument, and it was common knowledge that one did not cure patients merely by diagnosing their disorder. The present paper offers the suggestion that certain of the so-called projective tests may be employed in such a manner that their use will have a distinct psychotherapeutic effect. This psychotherapeutic effect is to be considered as the primary purpose for which the particular projective technique is to be used, the relative value of this particular form of therapy is to be used.

This article deals with the accumulated experience gained from the study of 500 cases on whom psychiatric opinion was available and to whom a full battery of already established psychological techniques was also administered. Each of the 500 patients studied received the Wechsler-Bellevue, the Rorschach Test, the Man-Woman Drawings, the Szondi Test, and in many cases independent evaluation of handwriting by an expert graphologist. The article describes a new five-minute projective device called "The Most Unpleasant Concept Test." This test allows a deeper insight to be gained from answers given to some of the other projective techniques.

The article reports on the szondi test. In a previous paper, the researchers have shown the wide variation in the frequency with which pictures are chosen by Szondi test subjects. In the present study,the researcher test the homogeneity of the Szondi pictures from the standpoint of recognition by comparing sets 1 and V to see whether there is a significant difference in the frequency with which pictures are recognized. Should the pictures be associated with categories by chance, the researcher expect to find on the average one correct identification for each sample of eight pictures, or a total of 300 for the two sets in the experiment. The chi-square test is used to measure the significance of the difference between the number of correct identifications in the two sets.

The article focuses on the Sentence Composition test. In the test, the subject is asked to write 20 sentences, each containing the word "because." Protocols can be qualitatively analyzed by the use of established psychodiagnostic principles. The test has one distinctive feature which justifies its appearance among the perennial burgeonings of new projective techniques. It taps the same free-associative function as does psychotherapy, with minimal intrusion of stimuli which exert their own specific influences on responses. The use of the word "because" helps to prevent repetitiousness and stereotypy, and makes for conciseness and personalized meaningfulness in the subject's responses.

This article compares the short and full forms of Barron's ego-strength scale obtained from 100 normal adults, half of each sex. Barron's Ego-Strength (E-S) scale has been widely deployed in clinical research and practice as a measure of psychological well-being and as a predictor of response to psychotherapy. The subjects were 100 normal adult job applicants, half of each sex, who had been administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as part of a pre-employment psychological screening battery.

In the Thematic Apperception Technique (TAT) the subject is presented with selected pictures around which he is asked to build appropriate stories. What is happening in the pictured scene, who the characters are and what they are thinking, what led up to the present situation, and what the outcome will be are points that the instructions suggest should be covered. The stories are analyzed by various investigators in different ways but usually with some attention to the formal characteristics of the stories--the choice of words, length of productions, etc.--and, far more importantly, secondly, the repetitive content of the needs, ie, the themata, that recur from story to story. Since the approach is fundamentally not a test in the older sense of the standardized instrument, the term technique has here been adopted instead. The present discussion of the TAT will take for granted some familiarity with the method of administration and interpretation. The treatment will be divided into three areas, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Dynamic Diagnosis, and Psychotherapy.

The article discusses the application of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) for the assessment of psychiatric patients. It has been predicted that there should only be a very limited relationship between the two tests, as the EPPS is considered a measure of motivation or needs and this measurement space is practically orthogonal to that of personality. This lack of common variance is emphasized further by the fact that the highest correlation between the oblimin factors of the combined analysis had an absolute value of only 0.20.

The article reports on Q technique applied to a patient and the therapist in a child One of the most perplexing problems in clinical research is the psychotherapeutic process. The main problems are that the process is unique to each individual, the process is not a standardized one, the unreliability of subjective evaluations and the complexity of the variables. Q technique has been employed as a methodology to circumvent these problems. One of the goals of psychotherapy is a change in the patient's self concept. Fourteen Q sorts of self concept were administered from varied subjective and objective viewpoints on a patient and the therapist.

The article explores the implications of the self-consistency theory of personality developed by the late Prescott Lecky, in his book "Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality." It attempts to elaborate the implications of Lecky's theory with special reference to psychotherapy. The validity of the concept of psychic determinism is questioned on theoretical grounds, since clinical experience indicates the importance of self-regulation. An outline is presented for objectively evaluating volitional behavior and self-control. Therapeutic implications are indicated with illustrative case summaries. It is concluded that intelligent adaptation achieved by training rather than free will is the basis for therapy oriented toward facilitating self-regulation and self-denial.

This article attempts to describe certain relationships between the Feeling and Attitude Scales and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory when both are used with a college group. This comparison appears appropriate because the FAS might presumably serve some functions similar to those of the MMPI, which is now widely used with college students, but which requires a great deal more time for administration and scoring than the FAS. The FAS can be administered in from five to ten minutes. Such a comparison might eventually also have another value because, as Hildreth points out, the FAS was designed to provide an objective scale to measure changes which might accompany psychotherapeutic treatment of a patient or to make possible comparative evaluations of different kinds of therapeutic procedures.