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Interest and limitations of projective techniques in the assessment of personality disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

J.M. Petot
J.M. Petot*
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Laboratoire Psychologie clinique des faits culturels, Département de Psychologie, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 200, avenue de la République, 92001Nanterre, FranceJean-Michel.Petot@u-paris10.fr
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* Correspondence and reprints : Jean-Michel.Petot@u-paris10.fr
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Summary

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.

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assessmentpersonality disorderspersonality inventoriesprojective techniquesthematic apperception test (TAT)

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Short Review Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 15 , Issue S1 , June 2000 , pp. 11 - 14
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Copyright © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved

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