Description
Somatic Inkblot Test-II (SIS-II) is in Booklet Form containing 62 Inkblot images in Series A and B each with 31 images. There is also a sample image in the beginning. The test is designed for self-administration after supervised instruction. It can also be used as group administered test particularly during selection and promotion in business organizations. The test has been used internationally on varieties of clinical population and has been found a successful test for personality assessment and diagnosis. Its therapeutic value has been emphasized by a number of clinicians internationally. The SIS uses the language of dreams, visual imagery, and symbolic thought, and emphasizes content analysis. It helps to bring out whatever is buried in the mind closure to consciousness, accessible for processing. Expression stimulated by ambiguous or partially ambiguous imagery can be used in therapy to test insight and to help measure treatment progress. The test accesses information about the individual not readily available from history taking, interview, mental status examination or from other forms of testing. It also elicits information, which is not consciously known to the patient, or reported as a problem. Usually, clinically significant, blocked material, will over-ride typical normative responses directly (manifest), or it will appear in symbolized imagery, similar to dream work (latent).Because there is no time limit, “test anxiety” is reduced, and the individual is free to react in his own time, often exhibiting significant verbal and non-verbal clues to each of the inkblots.
