ADVANTAGES OF THE THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT) IN STUDYING THE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS  Cover Image

ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ НА МЕТОДИКАТА НА ТЕМАТИЧНО-АПЕРЦЕПТИВНИЯ ТЕСТ ЗА ИЗСЛЕДВАНЕ НА МИСЛОВНИ И АФЕКТИВНИ РАЗСТРОЙСТВА ПРИ ЛИЧНОСТИ С ШИЗОФРЕННО ЗАБОЛЯВАНЕ
ADVANTAGES OF THE THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT) IN STUDYING THE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

Author(s): Svetozar Dimitrov
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Studying the psychic processes of schizophrenic people has a relatively low percentage in the general sphere of psychological studies of the personality. Reasons for this are twofold: on the one hand, the hard and pessimistic psychiatric diagnosis and, on the other hand, the psychological obstacles in construing the study of people, whose personality and Self-concept are in definition diffusive, chaotic, and unstructured. The Murray instrument TAT has the advantage of indirect procedure that facilitates and promotes disclosure of the hidden psychic contents, which are of great importance for the functioning of the studied person, however, which would very hard be traced out using the standard psychological methods.

  • Issue Year: 08/2005
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 293-304
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian