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TAT Manual

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective test that involves showing subjects a series of ambiguous pictures and asking them to tell a story about what is happening in the picture. It is used to reveal subjects' dominant drives, emotions, conflicts, and personality traits. The examiner records the subjects' stories and analyzes them using different levels of interpretation, including descriptive, interpretive, and diagnostic levels. Different cards target specific themes, such as relationships, depression, aggression, sexuality, and fears. The test provides insight into subjects' unconscious motivations and conflicts.

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TAT Manual

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective test that involves showing subjects a series of ambiguous pictures and asking them to tell a story about what is happening in the picture. It is used to reveal subjects' dominant drives, emotions, conflicts, and personality traits. The examiner records the subjects' stories and analyzes them using different levels of interpretation, including descriptive, interpretive, and diagnostic levels. Different cards target specific themes, such as relationships, depression, aggression, sexuality, and fears. The test provides insight into subjects' unconscious motivations and conflicts.

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THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT):

 It is a projective test consisting of a series of picture in which the examinee is requested


to create a story about the picture.
 It is a method of revealing dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and
conflicts of personality.
 Apperception refers to the process of projecting fantasy imaginary onto an objective
stimuli.

INSTRUCTIONS: The examiner will show some pictures one at a time and the subject will
be asked to make up a story; he/she can for each picture card. The story structure must be
obtained:

 Current situation: what is happening at the moment?


 Thoughts and feelings of the character: what the characters are feeling and
thinking.
 Preceding events: what has led up to the event shown in the picture?
 Outcome: what was the outcome?

PROCEDURE: A subject’s complete responses should be recorded and scored, Hero and
his/her need, motive and desires, presses like hindrance, exclamation, stuttering, pauses,
blushing, verbal and non-verbal behavior, fidget, eye-contact, degree of involvement, and change
in voice variation.

Questioning and inquiry: To produce an unhindered and free-flow of the subjects’ fantasy
material.

Order of presentation: Usually, the cards should be administered according to their


sequential numbering system.

INTERPRETATION:
Nomothetic Interpretation: Refers to the practice of establishing norms for answer from
subjects in specific age, gender, racial, or educational level groups and then measuring a given
subject’s responses against those norms.

Idiographic Interpretation: Refers to evaluating the unique features of the subject’s view of
the world and relationship.

Levels of Interpretation according to Bellak:


Descriptive: It is the mere repeat and narration of the story.
Interpretative: It extends the descriptive level by an alteration of it.

Diagnostic: it is the further extension that an interference is made about the client.

THEMES:

CARD 1: (Relationship card)

 Three major indicators are measured.


o Negative relationship
o Positive relationship
o No relationship (worst psychopathology or disturbed relations)
 Relationship with parents (aggression, punishing, protective, over-protective, dominating,
demanding, understanding)
 Autonomy versus compliance
 Guilt feeling about autonomy
 Sexual symbolic responses
 Body-image and self-image
 Aggression
 Issues of impulses versus control
 Superego anxiety
 Obsessive pre-occupation

CARD 2: (Family Card)

 Autonomy versus compliance


 Heterosexual and homosexual relationships
 Obsessive compulsive details
 Regression and avoidance conflict
 Siblings rivalry and Oedipus complex

CARD 3BM: (Depression card)

 Guilt measure
 Aggression (intra and extra aggression)
 Latent homosexuality
 Denial (Defense Mechanism)
 Latent/ Hidden anger
 Poor body-image

CARD 3GF: (Depression and Depressive Feelings)


CARD 4: (Male and Female Relationship Measure)

 Contemporary/Current relations
 Sexual problem or sexual-conflict measures
 Themes of infidelity

CARD 5:

 Fear of absorbed masturbation


 Voyeuristic material
 Fear of attack

CARD 6BM: Mother and Son Relationship

CARD 6GF: Female Relation towards their Father

CARD 7BM: Father/Son Relation

 Positive/ dominating/disturb relation

CARD 7GF: Mother/ Daughter Relation

 Expectancy of children

CARD 8BM:

 Aggression
 Stories of Ambition
 Fear of being Mutilation
 Denial of Aggression

CARD 8GF:

 Thinking and Self-Image

CARD 9BM: (Man to Man Relation)

CARD 9GF:

 Depression
 Suicidal Tendency
 Paranoid Tendency
 Romantic Connotations
 Mother-Daughter Hostility

CARD 10: (Man-Women Relation)


 Latent Homo-sexuality

CARD 11:

 Infantile and Primitive fears


 Fear and Anxiety
 Fear of Destruction
 Hallucinations
 Imaginative Experiences

CARD 12M: (Relation of Young man to an Old man)

 Passive homosexual fears


 Fear of being under the dominance of superior figure

CARD 12F:

 Conception of Mother Figure

CARD 12BG:

 Suicidal and Depressive Feelings

CARD 13MF: (Sexual Conflict in both Males and Females)

 Fear of Rape and Attack


 Feeling of Guilt
 Economic Deprivation
 Oral Tendency
 OCD Tendency
 Husband/Wife Feelings Project

CARD 13B:

 Needs and Childhood Related Conflicts and Defense Mechanism

CARD 14:

 Suicidal Tendency
 Aesthetic Feelings

CARD 15:

 Guilt Feeling
 Depressive Tendencies
 Fear of Death
 Fantasies

CARD 16: (Blank card based on Imagination)

CARD 17BM:

 Need for Achievement


 Body-Image
 Homosexual Feelings/Trends
 Fear from Physical Trauma

CARD 17GF:

 Suicidal Tendencies

CARD 18BM:

 Homosexual Trends
 Fear of Attack
 Anxiety in Males

CARD 18GF: (Mother-Daughter Conflict)

 How aggression is handled by a women

CARD 19: (Children and Early Adolescent)

 Fantasies, Aspiration and Desires

CARD 20: (Fear in Males and Females)

 Fear of Suicide
 Fear of Darkness
 Fear of Lonliness

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