What is it about?

This chapter from a book about standard projective measures of personality covers tests that measure personality functioning via pictures of faces, hands, handwriting, and other sundry methods.

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Why is it important?

This is important because these measures test functions not usually covered in standard texts. For example, responses to pictures of hands can reveal aggressive tendencies and useful for violence potential assessment.

Perspectives

Though these are not mainstream examples of projective tests (e.g. Rorschach inkblots), these tests provide clues to personality functioning at the subconscious or unconscious levels.

Dr Leonard P. Campos
Sacramento Institute for Redecision Therapy

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This page is a summary of: Other Projective Techniques, January 1968, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-39575-2_15.
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