METHODS & TECHNIQUES

R. STITOU

Thematic Apperception Test: Adults

Projective methods

I. Concept of projection
II. Projective situation and its different modalities through the TAT

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The new manual of the TAT: Psychoanalytic approach » Chabert & Brelet
The old: 'Projective Methods' Chabert & Anzieu
Françoise BRELET: "The TAT, fantasy & projective situations"
Exam: Multiple choice quiz in two parts on TAT, a Gély-nargeot, a Stitou

One cannot pass a test unless someone has stripped it down; it is not enough to have a technician. What is important is the encounter.
clinic. It is also necessary to consider many factors, for example, a teenager who is going through upheaval may have
a psychotic result if one does not take into account one’s environment/jerks.. etc. The technique is important if it
is articulated by a gaze, a clinical listening.

Definition of clinical psychology:

LAGACHE: Clinical psychology is an applied and concrete psychology. It is primarily a practice applied to a
clinical method aimed at an object, the man in conflict (division between the self and the image I have of myself) and proceeding essentially
by case analysis.
ANZIEU updates the definition and provides clarifications: It is an individual and social psychology, normal and pathological.
It concerns the newborn, the teenager, the young adult, the aging man, and finally the dying. Clinical psychology fulfills three
great functions.
- Diagnostic function (to know through): To understand the psychic organization mode that underlies the relationship to
world of the subject
- Training function: To shift fixed thought patterns rooted in prejudices towards a better
perception of a reality to be addressed.
- Expertise function: It is about providing an opinion that can enlighten the requester about the behavior/functioning.
psychological state of a subject.

Among the tools of a clinician are projective tests.

We take the time to listen and observe before deciding to conduct a test, then we explain to the subject what we are going to do.
take the test and we explain to him how we return it to him, but not just any way. There is in each person a dimension in
which the subject engages, it must therefore be sought, show where he might have an interest.. (This is called a point of fertility)
The purpose of the psychological exam is to guide a subject towards suitable work: it is important to clarify the request!
Jean Louis Petinelli: Projective tests are a dynamic investigation of personality that expresses itself through a
poorly structured or ambiguous material that the subject builds at will, giving it one or more meanings revealing of these
modes of conflict resolution, of one's apprehension of reality, of these defense mechanisms or of one's emotional economy.
The subject's productions are subject to interpretation and not to evaluation in terms of right or wrong answers.
Each response is unique to the RORSCHACH. (Created in 1929)
RORSCHACH test: psycho-diagnostic test consisting of 10 images/cards. During its administration, the subject is asked
everything he could see in these tasks. It is important to specify that he is free to see whatever he wants and that there is neither
good or bad answers. His answers are subject to analysis (psychogram) and the synthesis of the results provides a
interpretation that provides information about the nature of defense mechanisms, the organization of the self, and the relationship with others
and to the world… etc All this leads to a diagnosis of structure or psychic organization
TAT: Thematic Apperception Test (consideration of psychological processes)
MURRAY, invented in 1935. The images/plates consist of drawings, photographs, reproductions of
table or engravings and there is a blank plate (n°16) that has passed to both men AND women.
VICA SHENTOUB revamped this test in the 1970s and simplified it.
The subject is invited to tell a story from each board; through their narrative, they will demonstrate their ability to convey.
work of defense mechanisms that allow it to develop a story. The image is capable of revealing something about
the subject, and to study its defense mechanisms. In each panel, there is a manifest content (what we see) and a content
latent which will provoke the projection of the subject.
We make diagnostic hypotheses with the TAT just like with RORSCHACH, which are generally administered together.
CAT (Children's Apperception Test / up to 12/13 years old): Instead of having humans in the images/cards, we see animals.
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SYMONDS (CAT derived/adapted for adolescents): the boards feature characters with adolescent traits.
PATTE NOIRE invented by Louis Corman which represents a little pig
Village Test (ARTUS and MABILLE): The subject is asked to build a village with miniaturized materials and the subject will project.
his way of being in the world in a given space.
MAPS: A sort of stage set with which the subject will build a story.
Verbal test / Test of the three characters: (Madeleine BACKES THOMAS) Test very little loaded with cultural elements and holds
place of projective supports. Very used for subjects from other cultures.

ANZIEU talks about projective methods and hates the word TEST, because the method evokes the clinical and more human dimension.

Psychology of form: (VON EHRENFELS & WERTHEÏMER in Germany, KURT LEWIN in America) Every perception is
a construction. Gestalt theory is the study of how the perceptual process structures reality. It does not take
not really taking the subject into account, it studies the external conditions of perception while projective psychology will
to be interested in the internal conditions of the structuring of the person. The second source of influence is psychoanalysis, whose
Karl YOUNG will take into account the dimension of the unconscious. He uses the word association test.
understand that the associations we believed to be determined by formal and mechanical aspects are underpinned by another
dimension (the subject's implication is taken into account), it is not purely mechanical. This test includes 4 lists of 100
Words. One pronounces a word in front of the subject, the word 'inductor' and they must say as quickly as possible the first word that comes to mind.
in response. He identified two main psychological types: Introversion and Extroversion. The extrovert is oriented towards
Outwardly, he mainly reacts to the objective meaning of the word inductor. It is 'the concrete type' for JUNG. The introvert, on the other hand, is
turned inward, is for him the "egocentric type" who prioritizes subjective resonance. JUNG says that the test allows for
detect the complexes that refer to individual representations linked to affective factors.
Child's drawing: Psychoanalysis has used it to address the difficulty of conversation in some children. The drawing has been
less and less used as an intelligence test.
It will be formalized in several tests, THE TREE TEST (KOCH in 1969) which has a high symbolic value, THE TEST OF
CHARACTER (MACHOVER)

Projection: Mechanical / geometric / metaphorical sense.

Projective psychology (1939 /FRANK) aims to make visible/readable what is hidden/latent, what exists in a
hardly perceptible as movement or psychic state. It is a reappropriation of the term from FREUD, which will follow its
progression. He wanted to account for normal psychology but also for pathology. In the paranoia that FREUD
defined as a pathological defense mechanism, certain things cannot be tolerated by the patient. He believes that the
the paranoid projects his intolerable representations that return to him from the outside in the form of reproaches. The projection is
experienced as a misuse of a normal mechanism consisting in seeking externally the source of a displeasure. Freud shows that
the case of SCHREBER the inversions that the projective process can undergo in delirium. (He was convinced that he was the woman.
from God, that God was asking him to offer himself to Him
Freud describes the destruction of a phobia as a projection into reality of instinctual danger. (Case of little HANS, who had the
fear of horses. Her fear was a projective phenomenon that allowed substituting an external danger (here the horse) for a danger
interior related to the unconscious. For FREUD, Hans projected onto the horse his castration anxiety born from desires.
Oedipus.) FREUD says that "In phobia, the ego behaves as if the danger of developing anxiety does not come
not from a drive-based motion but from a perception and can thus react against this external danger by attempts to flee
phobic avoidance
The projection truly falls within the realm of the imaginary, finding its most general principle in the conception
Freudian of the drive. For FREUD, the organism is subjected to two kinds of excitations, those it can flee from and those it can...
protect and those he cannot escape. In other words, what can be escaped is external, and what cannot be escaped is internal although
unpleasant. To defend against internal excitements, whose intensity makes them too unpleasant, the subject projects them outward and
can thus distance them, flee from them. Beyond the pleasure principle, FREUD writes 'that there is an inclination to treat his
pulsations that are too intense as if it did not act from the inside but rather from the outside to be able to use against it the
Defense mechanism by excitation, such is the origin of projection.
According to FREUD, projection works in opposition to introjection (taking something from the outside).
The introjection is situated on a symbolic level. The projection is related to the image, to the imaginary, placed outside.
A very archaic defense mechanism that is found at all ages. Projection is not only pathological. Our
sensory perceptions are also subject to projection, it plays a crucial role in our perception of the world.
outside.
Under conditions that are still insufficiently clarified, our inner perceptions of emotional and intellectual processes are
like sensory perceptions projected outward and used for the formation of the outside world instead of remaining
localized in our inner world.
2 projections for Freud:

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 - Constitutive of perception in the recognition of an object or a situation. Conscious case. E.g.: we see a tree
which reminds us of our childhood: aware.
- Projection of what is latent and which reveals the existence of the unconscious. Projection is at the basis of perception:
Everyone perceives things subjectively. It influences the perception of things.
In the projective situation: when the subject is confronted with material (test). The world is constructed by the subject, it is not
passive.
The tests are deliberately loosely structured, like the vague perceptions of the sleeper or the remnants of the dream.
The dream is also a projection according to Freud, an externalization of an internal process. A desire is projected onto the stage of the dream. A
Dreams always say something about our unconscious. This externalization occurs from mnemonic traces.
When presenting the TAT images to the subject, they face a double bind:
He must focus on the reality of the material. Concrete image.
He must detach himself from this reality and imagine based on what he sees.
The guideline leaves freedom to the subject, which engages mechanisms similar to the work of dreaming. Freedom refers to the
subject to another scene that concerns unconscious processes, thus from an external reality, the subject projects something
This pertains to internal processes. In a development effort, the subject must convey through a coherent discourse what it refers to.
the equipment.
The projective material constitutes the screen on which a shaping is done.
The subject is caught in the paradox that makes the richness of the projective situation. The elaboration is linked to each person's subjectivity.
Projective tests are a provocation; they call upon the subject's language, pushing them to create. They reveal the
psychic functioning of the subject and the way the subject deals with the constraints of reality.

THE TAT:
Located on the level of discourse, the subject must tell a story. Triangulation of characters on the boards that refers to
an Oedipal structure, even if there are only 2 characters in the image, the 3this supposed to be out of sight.
Is part of thematic projective tests. The Rorschach is part of structural tests, the subject's task is
paradigmatic.
According to Anzieu, these tests reveal modalities of regression and modalities of secondary elaboration without
of which there would be no story => articulation between primary and secondary processes (pleasure/reality).
According to Anzieu, psychoanalysis distinguishes 3 aspects in psychic regression:
- A formal aspect: regression from rational and conceptual thought to image-based thinking.
- A chronological aspect: regression from adulthood to early childhood, or if the subject is a child, there is regression to
early stages of drive development.
In the unconscious, there is no chronology; when we regress, we do not become who we were. It is from the current point.
that something comes back.
- A topical aspect: regression of the ego to the id.
According to Anzieu, the projective situation triggers regression in the psychic apparatus of secondary processes based on the
reality principle, to primary processes based on the pleasure principle.
According to Ombredane, projection appears in several forms in projective tests:
Specular form: when the subject discovers in the image of others the characteristics that it claims to be its own. This type of
projection is expressed in the indicative mood.
For example: when a disabled child is asked to draw a body, they will draw a disabled person.
Or in the optative mode: e.g., an abused child will draw an ideal family.

Cathartic form: the subject attributes to others the characteristics that he refuses to consider as his own.
Complementary form: the subject attributes to others feelings or attitudes that justify their own. This projection uses the 2
modes (indicative and optative).

In the TAT, there is a tabulation sheet that requires updates. There are always symptoms, what changes is
the way to express the symptoms. The latest update takes into account the borderline states.
The TAT is not enough to clearly make a diagnosis; we make hypotheses.
Created by Murray in 1935, imported to France in 1950 by Mireille Monod.
The first method of analysis aimed to identify the hero of the story, the one with whom the subject is supposed to identify.
characters interacting with the hero represent the pressures of the family and social environment. The hypothesis being that needs
The heroes reflect those of the subject from classic human situations. There was no theory at that time.
V.SHENTOUB, since 1954, seeks the theory. It talks about TAT processes, taking into account the whole of
psychic mechanisms involved in this singular situation where the subject is asked to imagine a story based on the
board. It will take into account Freudian metapsychology. Allow for the development of an objective method of analysis of
collected material.
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The transfer of the TAT includes 3 major parameters:
- Material: a series of images presented to the subject. For each, there is a manifest content and a latent content.
- Instruction: The act, the presence of the clinician
Board 1:
Manifest content: a boy facing a violin.
Latent content: image of a child, focusing on functional immaturity, an adult object.
The conflict will revolve around the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of using this object immediately, with at the two extremes the depressive position.
and the megalomaniac position
The problematic refers to the anxiety of castration according to Anzieu. It assumes that the process of individuation is solidly
established.
Plate 2:
Manifest content: 3 characters in a field (2 women, old and young, and 1 man)
Latent content: Oedipus.
The conflict will focus on the position of the young adult in relation to the couple.
When the difference between the sexes is not staged, there is a dominance of the pregenital period, according to Anzieu. The young
The woman in the foreground is often idealized in teenage narratives. The stories often mention the misunderstanding of
couple would be victim this young woman.
Plate 3:
Manifest content: Individual slumped at the foot of a bench, sex & age undetermined
Latent content: Refers to the essential depressive position with bodily translation, tests the subject's ability to
to maintain a continuity of being while the object is absent or lost, which implies for the author the internalization of this subject.
When this condition is not met, the image gives rise to themes of destruction.
Plate 4:
Manifest content: A woman near a man who is turning away. Difference in gender but no difference in generation.
Latent content: Conflictual couple relationship with two poles: tenderness & affection. May evoke a parental image.
Anzieu: "Relational characteristic that favors a close duel. It can lead to manifestations of anxiety.
sometimes intense, when the subject struggles to position themselves in relation to a parental image felt as dangerous. One can
observe inhibition or impulsive overflow.
Sheet 5:
Middle-aged woman, hand on the door handle, looking inside a room.
Latent content: Refers to a feminine, maternal image that penetrates and observes. The conflict refers to this type of image.
feminine to the possibility or not of situating oneself in relation to a superego instance. Can reactivate sexual curiosity, and the
guilt.
Anzieu: 'When the maternal imago is intrusive or persecutory, there is a lack of sufficient internalization of the superego.'
Board 6 bm:
Manifest content: A man facing forward, looking worried, and an elderly woman looking elsewhere. Differences in the sexes and the
generations.
Latent content: Refers to a mother-son relationship in a context of discomfort.
Anzieu: The conflict must be tied to a prohibition of the Oedipal relationship. This image can lead to manifestations of anxiety.
when the subject has difficulty positioning themselves in relation to a parental image.
Sheet 7 bm:
Manifest content: Two heads of men side by side, one old, turned towards the other young, who is pouting. Therefore, a difference of
generation.
Latent content: Close to a father/son type in a context of reluctance regarding ideas. The conflict must arise around the
reconciliation between these two characters with two poles of tenderness and opposition.
Plate 8 bm:
Manifest content: Foreground, a boy turning his back to the scene. In the background, a rifle, a man lying down with two
people bent over him with an instrument. No difference in sex but a difference in generation.
Latent content: Scene of open aggression involving adult men and a teenager in a context of
contrasting position, active/passive. The conflict must unfold around the scene of open aggression in the background, connecting it to the
boy and with the rifle in the foreground. It refers to the problem of bodily aggression that can be experienced at the level of castration or
at the level of destruction. In certain contexts, much more intense aggressiveness fuels fantasies.
of sadomasochistic relation (Anzieu) or shifts the issue towards destruction and anxiety
of annihilation.

Board 6 bf:
Manifest content: A young woman sitting in the foreground turning towards a man leaning towards her. Difference in sex.

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Latent content: Refers to a heterosexual relationship in a context of libidinal desire and defense against desire. The desire
is objectified by the movement from one to the other and the defense by the separation of the planes.
Anzieu: "An Oedipal closeness that is both offered and forbidden."

Page 7 gf:
Manifest content: A woman, book in hand, leaning towards a little girl with a dreamy expression who is holding a doll.
braces, so generation difference.
Latent content: Refers to a mother-daughter relationship in a context of reluctance from the girl. The conflict unfolds.
around the identification with the mother. According to SHENTOUB, the subject may react strongly to the way the girl carries the subject and
evoked in echo of abandonment fantasies.

Page 9 gf:
Manifest content: A young woman behind a tree holding objects is watching a second young woman running in the opposite direction.
base.
Latent content: Refers to a situation of female rivalry in a dramatized context. The conflict must revolve around the
female rivalry. (Rivalry heightened by the similarity between the two women at the material level) and the fact that one seems
monitored the flight of the other. In the narratives, female rivalry can fade in favor of persecuting maternal images or
mortal.

Plate 10:
Latent content: refers to libidinal expression at the couple level, the image is sufficiently unclear for it to be seen.
different interpretations regarding the gender and age of the 2 characters.
Chaber-Anzeiu: this board offers the possibility of evoking the connection between tenderness and libido, while highlighting the development.
and the decline of the Oedipal conflict. What can be found in the narratives mentioning sexual curiosity underpinned by fantasies of
primitive scenes. The parts of the face that are in shadow cannot be reconstructed and integrated into a complete representation.

Plate 11:
Manifest content: chaotic landscape with vivid contrasts of shadow and light. Refers to something archaic. This plate
Its chaotic aspect can lead to massive inhibition or even decompensation of the secondary process.

Plate 12:
Manifest content: wooded landscape by a watercourse with a tree and a boat. Blurry background, and airy content.
Latent content: in an Oedipal context, evocation of representations of tender or distinctly erotic relationships. Beyond that, the dimensions
depressive and/or narcissistic behaviors manifest through the reactivation of an issue of loss and abandonment or through
the impossibility of introducing a social dimension.

Plate 13:
Manifest content: a woman lying down, her chest bare and a man in the foreground with his arm in front of his face.
Latent content: refers to the expression of sexuality and aggression in the couple.

Plate 13b:
Manifest content: it is a little boy sitting on the threshold of a cabin with disjointed planks. There is a contrast in the light.
between outside and inside.
Latent content: refers to the ability to be alone (Winnicott) and thus the ability to fantasize the absent object. And on the precariousness of
maternal refuge symbolized by the cabin.

Plate 19:
Manifest content: surreal image of a house in the snow or a boat in the storm.
Latent content: reactivation of a pre-genital issue, the stimulus can evoke a container and an environment.
allowing the projection of the good and the bad object. The board encourages regression and the evocation of phobogenic fantasies.

Last panel: blank panel. The subject says what he wants.

Latent content: refers to how the subject structures these privileged objects and the relationships it establishes with them. Character
who introduces a new instruction: 'so far I have shown you images that represented characters or
landscapes, now I present to you this board which is the last one and you can tell whatever story you want.
(course 6 15/02)
Situation of the TAT transfer

The equipment
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 For V., the TAT cards relate to universal conflicts. Either an Oedipal conflict or a more...
archaic. For each plate, there is a manifest content and a latent content that can reactivate this or that conflict and
problematic.
Like a kind of contradictory call (on one hand the letting go → latent content that reactivates mnemonic traces, on the other hand,
a kind of control → dream principle)

The instruction
Imagine a story based on the board
conscious, meaning the necessity of taking into account the manifest content of the image, to develop a logical story,
coherent, shareable and communicable to others.
2 contents in a single movement in order to transform R° into words, accepting the emotional charges such as the
regressive movement triggers them but sifting them in such a way that they can be handled by thought.

These 3 major parameters (material/instructions/clinician's role) can be likened to a conflict situation. For
FREUD, this conflict is the engine, it is related to everyone's desire, there is no desire, no psyche without it. It can open the way for the
creativity as it can lead to disaster. These are the singular modes of the subject's functioning in a situation
conflict generator which is the major aspect.
The process of developing each story goes through 4 stages according to Vicashentoub.
– The manifest content of the image is perceived.
– The latent content of the image as well as the instruction to imagine trigger a regression of representations.
unconscious accompanied by affects that are related to them.
– This representation complex affects by definition disorganized as everything that stems from the primary process will be or
will not be captured at the conscious preconscious level to be symbolized through language.
– The narrative of the story told is what testifies to the original compromise made by the subject to resolve the conflict.
The subject carries out genuine liaison work.

Subjectivity is taken into account. It is important to approach the TAT as one approaches a clinical interview. We are not
technicians. The interpretation also depends on the theoretical framework and the subjective involvement of the clinician. It is not only about the
subject that passes the TAT.
From time to time, the subject concerns the clinician. In such cases, he can only encourage his associations but not him.
say what to say, etc. If we feel that there is a very strong anxiety, we do not insist.

Diagnostic sheet according to V.

This evaluation sheet is used for developing a diagnostic hypothesis. Hypothesis because a single test cannot
account alone for a diagnosis. It allows for the assessment of the discourse processes used by the subject to construct their
stories. Its processes corresponding to the different modes of operation refer to the registers considered normal,
neurotics, psychotics, or borderline states. It seeks to highlight the processes that the subject uses to find a
resolution of conflicts reactivated by the presentation of each panel.

The factors of the A series (rigidity) refer to obsessional mechanisms of these defenses operating in the mode
of a timeless conflictualization.
The factors of series B (skill) concern the processes.. Conflicts are expressed in the intersubjective mode. B1
normal when B2 when the mechanisms are disturbed.
The factors of series C refer to when in the development of the story there are mechanisms that manifest the inhibition of the
thought. P processes refer to a phobic type of inhibition, F processes refer to an inhibition on the factual side →
In the narratives, everything is based on conformity, the concrete. The N procedures refer to a narcissistic-type inhibition → the
The relationship to self is predominant. The M processes refer to manic defenses → reversed depression in the form of
of exaltation.
The factors of series D, everything goes into action in the subject's stories, it brings the conflict into action.
The factors of series E (emergence in primary processes) evoke the idea that the principles of reality are
overwhelmed. The subject has difficulty distancing themselves from the reality of the board.

The clinician will gather the processes (A, B, C, D, E) present in the stories told. We will evaluate the modalities.
of psychic functioning. Readability is the way the story is structured. She identified 3 types:
1- type1 → readability +, it has good readability. The story is easily understandable.
2- type 2 → readability +-, when readability is partially impaired. Defenses are less effective than in type 1. There is
predominance of neurotic factors (A2, B2). This readability may tend towards type 1 or type 3, which is more
pathological.

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3- type 3 → readability – or +-. There is less capacity for elaboration, and it fails to symbolize the content of the boards.

When there is predominance of factors E, the subject is on the side of psychosis; when C and E are present, the subject is on the side of states.
limits.

Updated diagnostic sheet.

This is not a comprehensive statement; it must be a tool that is constantly updated. This new revised grid.
gathers only 4 major series of processes and more than 4. It is only filled at the end of the test. In 1969, in 'contribution'
from the TAT to the differential diagnosis between normal and pathological in children", V. and DEBRAY proposing a sheet of
reworked counting. Since 1958, there have been several counting sheets. What has been decisive are the works on the
Boundary states. The series that has disappeared is D. So we have A, B, C, and E. The behavior has been inserted into the factors of series C.
so that series C now appears to be composed of 5 sections.

The A series factors were considered control factors. Currently, the A series processes
are recomposed into 3 parts. A1 → likely to be encountered in any form of psychic organization, A2 → cannot
to be considered significant in their own right for psychic functioning and A3 → obsessive type, they account for
mechanisms present in obsessive neurotic functioning.
The factors of the B series are recomposed into 3 parts: B1 → investment in the relationship, they concern the
modalities of labile discourse as they are likely to be encountered in any form of psychic organization, B2 →
Grammatisation, they relate to the existence of an intra-psychic conflict whose modalities are expressed in an intersubjective manner.
However, we can only speak of hysterical neuroses in light of the relentless existence of .., not significant on their own, it
must association (like A2), B3 → hysterical, they refer to modes of defense typically hysterical.
The factors of series C (conflict avoidance and no longer inhibition) refer to mechanisms that manifest
the avoidance of intra-psychic content. There are 5 types of processes:
CF refers to an over-investment in the external reality. The subject seems disconnected from their internal world. The narratives are devoid of
depth. This refers to a mode of operational functioning. It must always be related to other processes and that it
It must be substantial to be significant. It is the importance and consistency of these processes that will be important.
CI (inhibition)
CN refers to a narcissistic investment.
CL refers to the instability of boundaries.
CM refers to anti-depressive modes of functioning. They include defensive modalities. They hinder the
modalities of intra-psychic connection.
(Will not be asked in the MCQ!)
The processes of the E series refer to the emergence of primary processes. When massive and regular, psychotic tonality.
Pleasure principle.

The processes of the first 2 series (A and B) are the most widely present in the protocols of neurotic subjects;
but this does not exclude that so-called neurotic or borderline patients use them or that neurotic individuals themselves resort to
other transitional processes.
The C processes refer to limit operations.
The processes of series E, when used recurrently or almost permanently, evoke psychosis.

This new form therefore allows for hypotheses to be made about the subject's modes of psychological functioning.
In this counting, we can distinguish 4 stages:
1- The grouping of discourse production processes. It is not purely quantitative.
2- It focuses on the appreciation of the qualitative particularities of speech development. In this new manual, the appreciation
The development of the discourse involves taking into account the way narratives are constructed, the range of processes and their
articulations, the link and the gaps between affects and representations, the phantasmic resonance to the latent solicitations of
material and the weight of defensive mobilizations.
It is important to pay attention to how the subject develops the issue for the boards.
4- Make the diagnostic hypothesis concerning the psychic organization. It proceeds from the analysis of the elements mentioned in the
counting sheet, it takes into account the quality of associative processes, etc.

A TAT protocol is read in a floating listening position, the counting sheet allows to identify the
psychic movements determined by defense mechanisms, but one must never lose sight of the situation of
The administration of the TAT is primarily a clinical situation. The materials of the TAT are never reduced to a scoring.

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 Case Study → Tristan

A person with alcoholism who finds himself without work, separated from his wife and children. He was adopting the speech of others.
concerning. He uses the same terms as those used by his surroundings. The psychologist suggested he talk about himself with
his words.
Board 1 → A2 4

Plate 2 → CN1
(course 7 02/22)
Plate 2 → latent content = Oedipus
Distancing through intellectualization and socialization of the tables. The contradictory desires would evoke his own division.
He is trying to distance himself.
Cotation → A2-2, A3-4, B2-3, CF-2, CN-3, CM-3.

Plate 3 → Manifest content = Person slumped on a bench.

Latent content = Depressive position and the way the subject will elaborate it.
Quote → A3-1, B1-2, B1-3, CM-3, E2-2.

Plate 4 → Latent content = Couple relationship according to the two poles of tenderness.
Manifest content = a woman next to a man who turns away.
He starts his story with a dialogue, a dialogue between desire and defense, a kind of theatricalization, of eroticization. According to the psychologist, his
The way of freeing oneself is the story of the sailor who does not attach himself to a woman and has one in every port.
A2-4, B2-1, B3-2, CF-2, CN-1.

The psychologist does not have him go through the boards in order and she did not present all of them to him. She did not have him go through board 5 because she ...
thought he wouldn't have handled the latent content.

Plate 8B-M
He will name the young man in the story, which can be a way to distance oneself from the violence. This leads to, according to the psychologist,
a repression of his feelings towards his father.
A3-3, A2-1, B3-1, B2-1, CI-3, CN-1

Sheet 6B-M
He enters directly into the narrative, a sort of scripting. He provides quantified precision but simultaneously cancels the start.
Double identification with the mother, to a brave and virile son.
Cotation → A1-2, A3-2, B2-1, B1-1, CM-1, CM-2, CM-3, CN-1.

Plate 11
In almost all the stories, it ends with a twist. He finds a solution by combining opposites. The impossible does not exist.
not in comic books. Wishes of omnipotence. Knowledge with a problem → alcohol is the water of fire.
A1-4, A2-1, A3-3, CN-1, CM-2, CM-3.

Sheet 7B-M
A fun activity since it evokes horse racing.
A1-3, B1-1, B2-1, B2-3, CM-3, E2-3.

Plate 13
There is a feeling that there is a shock at the sight of this image he is trying to control. Presence of depressive affect.
Quotation → B1-1, CN-1, CN-5, CI-3.

Plate 17
He operates in a narcissistic and manic mode.
Quotation → B3-2, CF-2, CM-3, CN-2.
Plate 19
Impression that there is an unsettling strangeness.
Quotation → A3-1, B2-3, B2-4, CN-1, CN-4, CI-3.

Plate 16 → White Plate

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One feels the surprise. At first, there is almost an aggressive refusal that will shift towards something subjective. There is a lack.
In his narrative, he relies on the white cardboard, on something to address his difficulty in facing the blank page.
Quotation → A3-2,