Themes common to more than one card

What type of stimulus triggers these themes

Outlier responses

What type of stimulus triggers these responses

Themes absent in responses

Common emotional states

Common needs

Common defenses

Common conflicts

Common goals

Common obstacles

Common outcomes

Overall perception of relationships

Overall perception of self

Overall perception of the world

Style of responding

Starting attitude to the task and changes in it

Respondent’s affect and changes in it

Structural elements missing in responses (beginning, situation, thoughts, feelings, outcome)

Latencies and changes in them

Length of stories and changes in them

Level of detail in the picture described and changes in it

Level of complexity (description, plot with conflict, conscious identification, interpretation of characters, generalization and symbolism) and changes in it

Responses indicating defensiveness

Type of defensive responses:

1) Simple description of the card

2) Highly formalized or structured responses

3) Substitution of personal response by other (e.g. movie plot)

4) Offering several options for story elements

5) Other

Triggers for responses indicating defensiveness

Changes following these responses

Responses indicating loss of control (tangentiality, thought blocking, loss of logic, blanket refusal)

Triggers for responses indicating loss of control

Changes following these responses

Types of meta commentary:

1) Evaluation of characters and plot (Narcissistic? Moralistic?)

2) Personalization (low self-esteem?)

3) Referring to common knowledge (low self-esteem? Anxiety?)

4) Unusual precision of details (histrionic? Low self-esteem? Concrete? Good writer?)

Speech characteristics:

1) Unusual style or verbiage

2) Platitudes and quotes

3) Paraphasias and pauses

1

Relationship w/parents, autonomy vs. compliance, achievement motivation, frustration, symbolic representation of sexual conflicts.

2

Family relationships, family conflicts, autonomy/compliance, love triangles, pregnancy and children, gender stereotypes, historical themes, professional competency.

3BM

Gender (identification vs. dissociation), aggression, depression, suicidality.

3GF

Depression.

4

Relationship w/partner or spouse (could be self or parental), autonomy vs. dependence, trust and betrayal, sexual conflicts, jealousy.

5

Relationship with mother, issues of privacy vs. intrusion, intimacy, safety.

6BM

Mother-son relationship.

6GF

Father-daughter or husband-wife or male authority figure relationship.

7BM

Father-son or male authority figure relationship.

7GF

Mother-daughter relationship, having children, sibling relationship, often includes very informative fairy tale.

8BM

Aggression, ambition.

8GF

Aspirations and dreams, current emotional state.

9BM

Cohort relationships, social interactions and biases.

9GF

Cohort relationships, mother-daughter and sibling conflicts, depression, suicidality, suspiciousness and paranoia, suppressed aggression.

10

Male-female relationship.

11

Primitive fears and anxieties, current emotional state.

12M

Relationship with authority figures (often psychotherapist).

12F

Relationship with mother or mother-in-law.

12BG

Depression, suicidality, loneliness, tranquility.

13MF

Sexual problems and conflicts, aggression, guilt.

13B

Analogous to card 1 plus loneliness.

13G

Same.

14

Fear of darkness, suicidality, overall perception of the world and life.

15

Death, depression, repressed aggression, religion.

16

Blank card (in my experience, often reflects reaction to the assessment process or the examiner).

17BM

Fears, escape, body image, associations with sports and fitness.

17GF

Suicidality, romantic stories.

18BM

Attack vs. support, fears and dependencies, aggression.

18GF

Aggression, mother-daughter conflicts.

19

Self and environment.

20

Fears, loneliness, independence.