Preferred Label : thematic apperception test;
MeSH definition : A projective technique which focuses primarily on the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
It consists of a series of 31 pictures that depict various social situations and interpersonal
relations. A subset is selected by the examiner and presented to the subject who is
asked to tell a story about each picture. The stories are interpreted in terms of
the subject's relations to authority figures, to contemporaries of both sexes, and
in terms of the compromises between external demands and the needs of the id, the
ego, and the superego. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996);
MeSH synonym : apperception test, thematic; tests, thematic apperception; apperception tests, thematic; test, thematic apperception; thematic apperception tests;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic apperception test;
Origin ID : D013803;
UMLS CUI : C0039756;
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A projective technique which focuses primarily on the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
It consists of a series of 31 pictures that depict various social situations and interpersonal
relations. A subset is selected by the examiner and presented to the subject who is
asked to tell a story about each picture. The stories are interpreted in terms of
the subject's relations to authority figures, to contemporaries of both sexes, and
in terms of the compromises between external demands and the needs of the id, the
ego, and the superego. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996)
