TAT Cards – Content and Interpretation

The TAT studies the way tested subjects elaborate on their conflicts. All stories are part of their own experiences or the ones lived by the people around them.

Let’s see the list of cards currently used by most therapists and their content and problematics.

Picture 1: A boy looking at the violin

Picture 2: A woman holding books in a country scene watching a man working in a field in the background.

Picture 3BM: A boy huddled next to a couch.

Picture 4: A man turning away while a woman who is grabbing his shoulders.

Picture 5: A woman looking into a room from the door.

Picture 6BM: A man holding his hat and an older woman standing beside him.

Picture 6GF: An older man leans over a younger woman sitting on a couch, who is looking back at him.

Picture 7BM: A younger man looking into nothing, and an older man looking at him.

Picture 7GF: A young girl is sitting on a couch with a doll in her hands. Behind her, an older woman is seated, reading her a book.

Picture 8BM: A young boy looking out of the picture. In the background, two men seem to be operating a third one.

Picture 9GF: A woman behind a tree is looking at another one, running on what it seems to be a beach.

Picture 10: A person rests his/her head on the chest of another person. Gender is ambiguous.

Picture 11: A landscape with a bridge, cliff, rocks, etc.…

Picture 12BG: We see a tree and a rowboat next to it with no presence of a human being.

Picture 13B: A young boy sitting in the doorway of a log cabin.

Picture 13MF​: A woman is lying on the bed, and a man is standing next to her with his head in his arm.

Picture 19​: A snowy surreal landscape.

Picture 16: Blank Card

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