MURRAY - ASSESSMENTS IN MURRAY’S THEORY

• Murray’s techniques for assessing personality differ from those of Freud and the other neopsychoanalytic theorists.
• Because Murray was not working with emotionally disturbed persons, he did not use such standard psychoanalytic techniques as free association and dream analysis.
• THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST


  The TAT consists of a set of ambiguous pictures depicting simple scenes
• THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST


  It is a projective and subjective test that is used for assessing unconscious thoughts, feelings, and fears
• THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST


  It uses a standard series of provocative yet ambiguous pictures about which the subject is asked to tell a story.
• In THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST, the subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as they can for each picture presented, including the following:

  1. what has led up to the event shown  
  2. what is happening at the moment  
  3. what the characters are feeling and thinking  
  4. what the outcome of the story was
• CONCLUSION OF MURRAY

  Murray has exerted an impressive and lasting influence on the study of personality. Of particular importance is his list of needs, which is of continuing value for research, clinical diagnosis, and employee selection, and his techniques for assessing personality
• CONCLUSION OF MURRAY

  Overall, these innovations, and the personal impact he made on at least two generations of personology researchers at Harvard, have had a more lasting effect than the details of his theory.