A patient's psychotherapist has given her a projective test. The test most likely consists of

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Projective tests involve presenting the patient with ambiguous materials (such as inkblots, ambiguous pictures, or incomplete sentences) and asking the patient to interpret them or tell a story about them. This is based on the idea that people project their own unconscious thoughts, feelings, and desires onto the ambiguous stimuli.  The material is purposefully ambiguous; responses to the material are partly determined by the person's feelings, motives, and conflicts from prior life experiences.

A Patient's Psychotherapist Has Given Her a Projective Test