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The reserved attitude analysts show toward including psychological testing procedures in clinical psychoanalytic settings seems to be based upon discontent with the lack of analytic significance of test results as well as upon concern about keeping analysis free of alienating influences. It is suggested that a thorough and adequate application of psychoanalytic theory and technique to psychological testing (as exemplified particularly in the work of Roy Schafer) may be helpful in making test findings more relevant and more acceptable to the analyst. Three areas of application—the testing situation, interpretation, and communication of test results—are discussed.