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Aspects of Thematic Apperception Testing: Depression^*

Scalebor Park

Ashley A. Robin, M.B., Ch.B., Junior Registrar

Scalebor Park

^* A Paper read at the Northern and Midland Division of the Royal Medico-psychological Association held at Menston Hospital, Leeds, on 21 October, 1949.

ABSTRACT

The Thematic Apperception Test and the Rorschach Test were given to two matched groups, one consisting of moderately depressed patients and the other a series of normal controls. The objectively evaluated material of the control group was used as a norm, and responses of the experimental group which diverged from this to a statistically significant degree were taken to be associated with the depressive syndrome; these are noted and discussed, and it is suggested that divergences of this nature should form the basis of TAT interpretation. Correlations between Rorschach and TAT scores are discussed; from the findings it seems likely that the two tests plumb different levels of personality integration, and differential performances on the tests may be of assistance in diagnosis and prognosis.