Abstract

CIPULLO, Marcos Alberto Taddeo  and  AZEVEDO, Débora Cândido de. The phenomenological-existential perspective in the comprehension of the projective techniques for child psychodiagnostic. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2018, vol.24, n.1, pp. 139-157. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2018v24n1p139-157.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the possibility of an existentialphenomenological view of projective tests, widely used as instruments for psychological assessment and psychodiagnosis. Initially, the concept of projection is mapped approaching its various definitions, starting with the psychoanalytic conception (which is usually understood as the "official one", and seconds the reading and interpretation of the results obtained based on the script and history reported by the subject). Afterwards, different perspectives of the term will be shown, grounded by the vision of authors within the existential phenomenological scope such as Sartre and Merleau- Ponty. Along the text, some proposed understanding of graphic tests will be made with an existential-phenomenological methodology (for instance, Socrates’ maieutic method), which does not work based on previous analysis criteria, but understands the subject’s fundamental role in the “donation of meanings” and in the feedback of results, when the analysis is completed

Keywords : Projective techniques; Drawing house-tree-person; Psychological tests; Psychodiagnosis; Existential-phenomenological Psychology.

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