PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter IX: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Personality Disorder, Thematic Apperception Test
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The theory behind the tat is that when you observe human behavior, either in a picture or in real life, you will interpret that behavior according to the clues that are available in the situation. These personal perception variations form the idea behind murray and morgan"s. The basic underlying assumption of the tat is that people"s behavior is driven by unconscious forces. This view contends that unconscious conflicts (usually formed in childhood) must be exposed for accurate diagnosis and successful treatment of psychological problems. Murray wrote, the purpose of this procedure is to stimulate literary creativity and thereby evoke fantasies that reveal covert and unconscious complexes (p. 530). Morgan and murray developed the pictures to stimulate fantasies in people about conflicts and important events in their lives. Through trial and error with several hundred pictures, a final set of 20 was chosen. Murray and morgan reported two main findings from their early study of the tat.
