ABSTRACT
The TAT (Murray, 1938), the most popular apperception test for personality assessment, was developed to provide “a method of revealing to the trained interpreter some of the dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and conflicts of a personality” (Murray, 1943, p. 1). It was originally conceptualized as a projective technique “to expose the underlying inhibited tendencies which the subject, or patient, is not willing to admit, or can not admit because he is unconscious of them” (ibid.). Murray initially intended the method “as a preface to a series of psychotherapeutic interviews or to a short
psychoanalysis” (ibid.), but he also suggested that it could be very effectively combined with the Rorschach.
