Why do psychologists give patients psychological tests such as drawing pictures and making them recognize animals? I don't know why. Are those related to psychology?

Drawing animals and recognizing animals belong to the so-called projection test. Projection test refers to using some method to bypass the psychological defense of the respondents and detect their true thoughts when they are unprepared. In the projection test, subjects are given a series of fuzzy stimuli and asked to respond to them. For example, abstract patterns, unfinished pictures, and paintings that can be interpreted in many ways. Ask the subjects to describe the pattern, complete the picture or say what is in the picture. From the subject's explanation, there will be his own subconscious thoughts, which can understand the subject's inner thoughts to some extent.

Projection test is based on Freud's psychoanalytic personality theory. According to this theory, some subconscious internal driving forces are suppressed and not easy to detect, but they affect people's behavior. This kind of subconsciousness can be revealed in irregular expression, while psychologists have the subconsciousness expressed by the subjects for personality analysis. Given ambiguous stimuli, the subjects will react freely. The examiner analyzes the responses of the subjects and infers their personality characteristics.

Famous projection tests include Rorschach ink test, thematic apperception test and square test. At present, the house tree test is commonly used by ordinary people

Application scope and advantages of "tree house test"

(1) Scope of application:

1. This test can be used for group test and individual test.

2. It can also be used as a screening tool for mental health of people, so as to screen out the bad guys in the group.

3. It can also be used for outpatient and inpatient psychological diagnosis to provide information about personality for psychological counseling.

In addition, it can also be used to mediate the relationship between husband and wife and parent-child relationship, and it is also one of the means to treat and correct unhealthy teenagers.

5. Use the function of art therapy to promote the rehabilitation of mental patients.

(2) Advantages:

1. It is active, constructive and nonverbal, which avoids the deformation of the reaction content in the process of verbalization, so as to understand the personality characteristics of the subjects more specifically and capture the unspeakable psychological conflicts.

2. You can get a preliminary understanding of the intelligence level of the subjects, unlike WAIS test, which has many limitations and is not easy to cause psychological trauma experience.

3. Re-testing will not lead to the effect of practice, which is beneficial to repeated testing and follow-up observation.

Disadvantages: the evaluation results are subjective. In principle, Fang's test results need to be analyzed by highly trained psychologists. Ordinary people can refer to the test analysis manual for simple analysis.