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The author describes this Projection Test as an instrument for psychological investigation, diagnosis and therapy, mainly suitable for children between the ages of six and twelve.
It consists of eight black and white drawings, representing seven different family situations—one is in duplicate, the elder child being represented by a boy or girl according to the sex of the examinee. The drawings are presented seriatim and the child is asked to make up a story based upon what is seen in the picture. The pictures are necessarily indistinct to allow for full phantasy formation and projection of this phantasy. There are forty standard questions which, if not answered indirectly in the story, should be interpolated. A number of these questions seem to have a very definite suggestive value. The routine is to take stories down verbatim, noting any interpolations, unless this recording causes undue emotional disturbance.
The author attempts to differentiate between identification and projection and illustrates the latter mechanism from a number of her case histories, which are not arranged in any serial order. From these stories it would appear that a definite response is emerging, the neurotic and delinquent children giving a more primitive and aggressive type of story than the normal controls. However the number of observations to date are too few to justify the setting up of a standard response for diagnostic purposes i.e. a total of 110 cases divided into normal, neurotic and delinquent and so further subdivided by age and I.Q. that the numbers range from 0–11. Further there is an unfortunate lack of uniformity in the drawings, some of the figures having definite features while others are mere outlines. In one situation in particular, the expression on the faces of the parents is at variance with the description of the scene as given in the text. The so-called duplicate is not a duplicate and is therefore capable of a different interpretation.
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