The Importance of Analyzing Protective Mechanisms Using Tat in the Psychodiagnostic Process.

Jonida Mustafaraj
Lecturer at the Faculty of Medical Technical Sciences, University of Elbasan "Aleksandër "Xhuvani, Albania

Abstract

The Thematic Apperception Test, or TAT, is a type of projective test that involves describing ambiguous scenes to learn more about a person's emotions, motivations, and personality. Popularly known as the "picture interpretation technique''.( Henry A. Murray, Oxford 2008). The psychodiagnostic report is a communication between the tester and the referring person and plays a vital role in the final treatment or intervention plan for the patient. Because personality analysis is vitally related to report writing, the uniqueness of each person tested is emphasized. The last aspect of the subject of personality analysis is important for the psychodiagnostic report.( Henry Kellerman and Anthony Burry,2007) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association 2000), obsessive-compulsive disorder is placed within the class of psychiatric disorders known as anxiety disorders.Obsessions are persistent, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that interfere with a person's thinking and cause excessive worry and anxiety. (Bruce M. Hyman PhD LCSW, Cherlene Pedrick RN:2010). The aim of this study is to demonstrate the efficiency of the TAT instrument in analyzing the protective mechanisms during the psychodiagnostic process. TAT was wasted in this study and 2 case studies were commander into consideration. The results showed perceptual and cognitve process views. From the conceptual perspective, it is shown that the TAT test in OCD showed us details, detailed descriptions, the fragmentation of stories, multiple alternatives for the same story, and the relationships between the characters, that is, the perception of the relationships, the difficulty of the relationships between them.While from the viewpoint of Cognitive it gives us data about the flow of thought, rationalism, and intellectualism, showing us that TAT gives us essential data for the diagnostic process of OCD. As recommendations regarding the test, we affirm that TAT is a very streamlined, instrument that we can use extensively in the condition of clinical utility, enablement us to be accurate for the client during the diagnostic process.

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