Clinical Reports

Licensed professionals may contact Leland van den Daele, PhD at Psychodiagnostics for PDF copies of clinical reports based upon the MAT (see contact information on the home page). The reports include verbatim anonymized responses from patients. These reports are for professional use or teaching purposes only. They illustrate the unique value of the MAT for diagnosis and treatment planning.

Quick Guide to MAT Measures

The Quick Guide provides a simple overview of principal test measures.

Quick guide to MAT measures

Introduction to the Music Apperception Test

This slide presentation provides an acquaintance with the Music Apperception Test. The presentation introduces music as a stimulus for feeling and emotion, and how music was composed for the MAT to elicit primary emotions. The basic measures are defined with narrative examples.

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning with the Music Apperception Test

van den Daele, L.D. & Robinson, M. (2010). Diagnosis and treatment planning. Symposium on the Music Apperception Test: Neuropsychology, Development, and Design of the MAT. San Jose: Society for Personality Assessment Annual Conference.

The Embodied Narratives of Professional Dancers to the Music Apperception Test

A sample of adult professional dancers who commenced dance training at or before age 12 provided narratives to the MAT. As a group, dancers were faster to respond, more fluent, and highly accurate in their emotional response to the emotion portrayed by MAT music. These slides provide narrative examples of their rich and colorful narratives.

MAT Performance Differences among Samadhi, Beginning, Advanced, and Master Insight Practitioners by Garth Copenhaver

This study examines differences among beginning, advanced, and master insight practitioners of meditation.

The MAT is examined in the light of new developments in science. Most psychological tests rely on old and dated methods and technology. The author examines the relation of the MAT to fixed choice, paper-and-pencil, and classical projective tests.

Poster Chinese Undergraduate Students

Poster presented at the 7th Annual International Conference of Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture. City University of Macau, Macau, China, October 21, 2015