Volume 32, Number 4, 708-757, DOI: 10.1007/BF01563030

Psychodiagnosis and psychodynamics from an object-relations frame of reference
Application of the Kerman Cypress Knee Projective Technic (KCK)

Edward F. Kerman

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Abstract

This study deals with the test performances and record analyses of eight subjects to whom the Kerman Cypress Knee Projective Technic (KCK) was administered. Diagnostically, these subjects represented the following categories: schizophrenic, depressive, phobic, paranoid, obsessional, hysterical, delinquent, and organic. Their records were evaluated in the light of basic theoretical factors of the object-relations theory developed by Fairbairn. It is concluded that the KCK is a unique contribution to the field of projective testing, utilizing ambiguous, unstructured stimulus objects that are perceived by the individual as object-representations, thus specifically contributing information about his object-relations with internalized and external objects.
The test findings reported here are admittedly an early effort, and much further work will be required, it is felt, to arrive at a refined clinical instrument for the detection and measurement of the variables of interpersonal relationships.

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