title: Interest and limitations of projective techniques in the assessment of personality disorders.
abstract: Assessing personality disorders (PD) remains a difficult task because of persistent problems linked to concurrent validity of existing instruments, which are all structured interviews or self-report inventories. It has been advocated that indirect methods, projective techniques in particular, can strengthen PD assessment methods. The thematic apperception test (TAT) may be a significant adjuvant method of PD assessment.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Psychologie clinique des faits culturels, Département de Psychologie, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 200, avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre, France. Jean-Michel.Petot@u-paris10.fr
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Petot
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test