a "test" invented by a Hungarian
psychiatrist Lipot Szondi (1893-1986), in which a person is shown a number of
pictures of mental patients (who are known to be
psychotic or sexually deviant in some way). The testee is told to choose which
pictures he likes the most and which he likes the least. The basis of this test, Szondi
asserted, was that a person would select a
picture of someone most like himself, and thus supposedly reveal the "disorder" he was suffering from.
(psychology) psychological testing involving the
use of
pictures of known
psychotic types. The
subject is asked which
picture he likes the least or most. His responses are correlated then with the responses of
psychotics represented by the liked
pictures.