| Summary: | "The recent development in the theoretical and methodological discussion, especially L. J. Cronbach's Presidential Address for the A.P.A. entitled "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology," and, more recently, an article by Reuben Fine, "The Logic of Psychology," in Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review, have clarified the position of projective techniques and enable us to progress to more productive publications. From their original purpose as a diagnostic adjunct, projective techniques have found their most useful application in the service of prognostic clarification. From there, it is only a short step to employ them at the same time as a point of departure for actual therapeutic measures. Molly Harrower, with her "Projective Counseling," has done this in her usual ingenious way, both with individuals and groups. Pauline Vorhaus, selecting as point of departure the Draw-a-Person procedure, compares in her "Structured Interview" what the subject says about the figure he draws and what he says about himself. Her elaborate case study exemplifies the possibilities of this technique amply, and would have been worth publishing by itself. Melvin Roman and Gerald Bauman round out the picture with their "Interaction Testing," using the Rorschach and the WAIS as the basis for illustration"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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