A Critical Analysis of Projective Techniques

Reviews the book, An Experimental Approach to Projective Techniques by Joseph Zubin, Leonard D. Eron, and Florence Schumer (1965). The present book is an attempt at returning projective techniques to the scientific fold It provides methods for testing hypotheses and hunches emanating from the clinic and in this way permits an evaluation of present-day methods in projective techniques. It is hoped that by making explicit some of the dilemmas, contradictions, and blind alleys, as well as advances and achievements of the field of projective techniques, the young clinician will begin to develop an interest in constructing research hypotheses and designs of his own. Even more optimistically, it is hoped that clinicians and clinical students without research interests and without the healthy skepticism and questioning attitudes that nourish any science will be stimulated to evaluate their tools and make explicit their assumptions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)