| Summary: | "The Insight Test is a verbal projective technique to which the subject may respond either orally or in writing. The original study, supplemented by further clinical and experimental application, has demonstrated that it yields results which compare favorably with other projective techniques and is sensitive to a wide range of individual characteristics. It also possesses certain values of its own in delineating the self-concept, the individual defense structure, and the preferred modes of emotional problem solving. This combination of clinical versatility, which compares favorably with the longer established projective tests (Rorschach and TAT) plus adaptability for group testing and for situations in which self-administration is desirable is, perhaps, the main reason for the attention the Insight Test has won. This manual is intended primarily for the clinician and the clinical research worker, in the expectation that he will take creative liberties with the stimulus material, the method of analysis, the technique of administration, or with any other aspects of the test by which it may be made more effective for special purposes. The method of scoring, like any unfamiliar categorical system, is likely to appear cumbersome and perhaps arbitrary. It has been preserved, first, because it highlights differences from record to record for which consistent intergroup and interindividual differences are indicated. Secondly, the empirical scoring categories appear to represent modes of response which express important psychological variables and their interrelationships. Of particular importance for further research are assumptions which have been made concerning affect-control balance as reflected in the quantitative relationships between certain kinds of Insight Test response. The possibilities of certain other measures as a reflection of superego function, ego organization, and defense structure also demand further investigation"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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