The article describes projective psychodiagnostic technique of E. S. Shneidman «Make A Picture Story test» MAPS, based on the technique of thematic apperception. Th e article examines its structural features and diagnostic possibilities, with the variants of interpretation charts of leading foreign specialists in the sphere of project facilities being described. Th e paper also suggests the theoretical substantiation of modeling of a person by means of MAPS on the basis of the approaches accepted in domestic psychology. Th e paper provides the results of the research by means of technique MAPS of the persons characterized by destructive behavior, including the subgroups of examinees with aggressive-violent, suicide and addiction forms.
Translated title of the contributionThe technique of thematic apperception by E. Shneidman and person`s destructive behavior studying
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)94-100
JournalВЕСТНИК САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. СЕРИЯ 12: ПСИХОЛОГИЯ. СОЦИОЛОГИЯ. ПЕДАГОГИКА
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2011

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