ABSTRACT
The psychological significance of the nonhuman-movement responses is not as great as that of the human-movement responses. This is due in part to the greater difficulty in determining the exact psychological meaning of the animal-movement and inanimate-movement responses and in ascertaining the validity of the definitions of their meaning. But the more important reason for their smaller significance is the fact that they reveal traits which are less pertinent to an understanding of an individual’s motivation and a prediction of his behavior. Much less is lost when the nonhuman-movement responses are left uninterpreted than when the human-movement responses fail to be considered in the analysis of the Rorschach record. The animal and the inanimate movements disclose action tendencies that are less well integrated into the whole personality than are those indicated by the human movements.
