Emphasis on the narrative mode of thought offers new ideas about the interpretation of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). I discuss two new approaches to the TAT, based on psychodynamic concepts and sensitive to the narrative features of TAT stories. Research supporting these coding systems-assessing the level of object relations and assessing the use of defense mechanisms-has shown these measures to be reliable and valid. I discuss considerations of reliability and validity, as they apply to the TAT.
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Phebe Cramer (1999) studied this question.
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