Publication details
The Scenotest: A Special Type of Play Therapy in the Projective Diagnostics Context
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The Scenotest is an inspirational device used in psychotherapy and diagnostics (especially when assessing personality and social relations in children). It is one of the specific methods of Central-European psychology, widely used especially in German-speaking countries. The paper will sum up the basic information about this method, drawing partly on Ermert (1997), von Staabs (1991) and others, and partly on the author's own research and experience from his clinical practice. The paper discusses the Scenotest method, its functions, possible ways of analysing the process of constructing the scene and the scene itself. It further describes the parameters of formal and content analysis. The paper also presents a clinical and exploratory research, conducted with the aim to examine the specificities of the formal-content analysis of Scenotest as a means for assessing adults with asocial personality disorder. The research results show there are distinctive characteristics in the scenes constructed by individuals with asocial personality disorder. In the scenes, there is an evident high degree of aggression, topic perseveration, anxiety, higher symbolic coefficient and phallic syndrome. Further, the scenes reveal the need for marking-off, proportioning and an emphasis on edges and margins. From the perspective of formal analysis gander, fox, stork and train were the most frequently used figures by the research sample. |