Psychological Test, Worcester Schizophrenic Thematic Apperception Test
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935-1945
notes: label: Description
content: David Shakow, the donor of these materials, is remembered for the research on schizophrenia he and his colleagues did at Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. He worked there briefly in 1924 and 1925 and was on the staff from 1928 to 1946. These objects relate to the Thematic Apperception Test as it was used at Worcester. The first subindex number (316372.05.01) is given to a typescript entitled "Outline of Psychological Analysis and Report--Military Study." Subindex numbers 316372.05.02 through 316372.05.29 are given to images mounted on square cardstock, while images with subindex numbers 316372.05.30 to 316372.05.47 are mounted on larger, rectangular pieces of cardstock. The first group of cards include a number on the back as well. Listing cards by this number, with subindex numbers showing the image also listed, the cards are:
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content: 1 (316372.05.07, 316372.05.22) – shows a man with a naked torso, leaning forward
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content: 2 (316372.05.20) – shows a woman dancing with a baby
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content: 2e (316372.05.12, 316372.05.34, 316372.05.41, 316372.05.46) show a woman and a boy looking at an infant
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content: 2G (316372.05.14, 316372.05.30, 316372.05.39, 316372.05.43) show a woman nursing a baby
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content: 4 (316372.05.08, 316372.05.27) – shows a woman on the floor, leaning into a couch
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content: 5 (316372.05.26) – shows a boy staring at a violin and bow
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content: 5G (316372.05.10, 316372.05.33, 316372.05.37, 316372.05.45) – shows a man and a child at a toy bench
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content: 6 (316372.05.24) – shows a man on the ledge of an open window
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content: 7 (316372.05.17) – shows a young man with an older woman
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content: 7a (316372.05.21, 316372.05.32, 316372.05.40, 316372.05.42) – show a girl hiding and watching a man and woman embrace
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content: 8 (316372.05.28) – shows a sitting man with his hand stretched over a man lying down
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content: 8G (316372.05.13, 316372.05.31, 316372.05.36, 316372.05.47) – show a boy poking a girl
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content: 10a (316372.05.11, 316372.05.35, 316372.05.38, 316372.05.44) – show a man and woman looking down on a child
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content: 11 (316372.05.05) – shows three horses, two riders
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content: 12 (316372.05.16, 316372.05.25) – show a man held at the neck and on the arm
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content: 13 (316372.05.02, 316372.05.15) – show a woman embracing a man
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content: 14 (316372.05.29) – shows a man grabbing a pole
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content: 15 (316372.05.23) – shows the heads of two men
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content: 16 (316372.05.03, 316372.05.19) show a standing man, leaning forward
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content: 17 (316372.05.18) – shows two men chatting, one holding a cigarette
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content: 18 (316372.05.09) – shows a man grabbing woman
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content: 20 (316372.05.04) – shows a man lying motionless on the floor
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content: B (316372.05.06) – image blank
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content: Some of these images are also in a standard Thematic Apperception Test, some are not.
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content: The cards are covered with plastic ad taped around the edges.
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content: References:
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content: R. L. Cautin, “David Shakow and Schizophrenia Research at Worcester State Hospital: The Roots of the Scientist-Practitioner Model,” <I>Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, 2008, 44 #3, pp. 219-37.
label: Description
content: David Rapaport, <I>Diagnostic Psychological Testing</I>, Chicago: The Year Book Publishers, 1946, vol 2, pp. 395-469.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.05
label: catalog number
content: 316372.05
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: photographic paper (overall material)
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content: tape (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 17.5 cm x 20.5 cm; 3 15/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 8 1/16 in