title: Theoretical value of psychological testing.
abstract: Apart from their diagnostic value, psychological tests, especially the Rorschach test, have an important theoretical value for understanding psychopathology. They present a picture of a living person, in contrast to a picture of forces and agencies within the person. This rests on 2 advantages of tests over the usual psychiatric and psychoanalytic interviews: Tests are ahistorical and they present information primarily of a formal kind.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, USA. shapirod@newschool.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders; D002605:Character; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D000075384:Neuroticism; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011599:Psychopathology; D012392:Rorschach Test