Posted by Dinah on March 7, 2004, at 15:49:02
In reply to Re: Projective tests ... are they worth it?, posted by Camille Dumont on March 6, 2004, at 17:17:14
I'm not sorry I did it either. It was fun. I think I would have liked it better if the psychologist hadn't annoyed me so much with her chipper outlook.
I've told this story before and people might be sick of hearing it. But the psychologist had refused to show me the actual scores from my MMPI. When pressed, all she would give was the 2-7-8 elevations. She said she wasn't allowed under her professional guidelines to show me the scores. Now I happened to know (because as soon as I had finished the test, I looked up everything I could about it), that that wasn't true. There was even at least one book devoted to how best to share the results with the client. I don't like being lied to.
So I went to the university library and using several different texts managed to reconstruct the test on a lotus schedule, complete with scoring protocol, and gave it to myself. Then I could not only what my scores were, but why certain scales were elevated. And I did tons of research into what it meant.
I went back to clarify a couple of points with her, and brought my lotus schedule. She looked absolutely alarmed, poor thing. But when I showed my therapist he laughed. Because it was so much like something I would do. He just worried about the time I wasted on it. :) But I don't think it was a waste of time. I think it said more about my personality than the testing did. lol.
So, curious? I definitely understand curious. :D
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