Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Oriented Psychotherapy Outcome Using Rorschach and TAT: A Case Study

Journal Title: Yaşam Becerileri Psikoloji Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 2

Abstract

Projective techniques especially Rorschach and TAT ( Thematic Apperception Test) have a wide variety of assestment areas. These techniques have been used from selection of staff for a appropriate job, giving diagnosis to psychiatric patients, in child services for counseling, selection and evaluation of military personel. Apart from these uses they also have valuable contributions to the efficiency of a certain treatment programs with helping clinicans to evaluate the psychodynamic properties of a client to decide the type, duration and specific issues in the treatment programme (Deabler, 1947, Weiner, 1997, Tunaboylu-İkiz, 2001, 2002, 2010,2011, Anzieu & Chabert, 2011). In this study a case who was treated with psychodynamic oriented psychotherapy for 2 years the outcome of the threapy evaluated with Rorschach and TAT. In the first assestment before the psychothreapy began the Detail responses given by the patient was to much inorder to protect himself from the dangers coming from the real world.The content of the responses also showed the same charasteristic with using the same theme all over the full protocol.Case’s problems around his self-representaion, self, identification- differences between gender and object relations was evaluated with TAT that showed object loss was the main problematic. After 2 years with the termination of the threapy the second evaluation was done. In this second evaluation the case led himself more freely to the test material with less resistance. In the second evaluation; the case’s cognitive processes and using of words are more rich wch represents high cognitive and entellectual capacities. He is less resistant to unconscious material, sexual contents coming up in responses with more intellectual ways. With these two assestment the efficiency of psychodynamic oriented psychothreapy was proved. Although the case’s perception of the real world still contains some aspects of threads the second evaluation showed that he is more open to his drives. Also ın the second evaluation the main problematic issues upon self-representaion, self, identification- differences between gender and object relations were in normalized matter

Authors and Affiliations

Zihniye OKRAY

Keywords

Related Articles

Investigation of the Levels of Perceived Social Support and Internet and Game Addiction in Gifted Students

The aim of this research was to compare the levels of internet and game addiction and perceived social support levels of gifted students who continue to Science and Art Centers according to some socio-demographic variabl...

Family Therapys with The Method of Film Analyses: What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Family therapy deals with the process of a family and the communication of the members with each other. Today there are many family therapy approaches and each has different kind of the techniques. In spite of the fact t...

Identifying Pedophilia

Pedophilia, derived from Greek words philia of pedeiktos meaning erotic love of children (Seto, 2002) includes using children as a sexual excitement object to reach gratification. In most cultures children are not deemed...

Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Oriented Psychotherapy Outcome Using Rorschach and TAT: A Case Study

Projective techniques especially Rorschach and TAT ( Thematic Apperception Test) have a wide variety of assestment areas. These techniques have been used from selection of staff for a appropriate job, giving diagnosis to...

The Investigation of the Relationship between Tinnitus and Depression

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between tinnitus and depression. The sample of the study consisted of randomly selected individuals aged between 18 and 60 years who were admitted to public hospi...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP449702
  • DOI 10.31461/ybpd.320018
  • Views 130
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Zihniye OKRAY (2017). Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Oriented Psychotherapy Outcome Using Rorschach and TAT: A Case Study. Yaşam Becerileri Psikoloji Dergisi, 1(2), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-449702