ABSTRACT
Of all the techniques used in psychology, free association is one of the most venerable. It has been widely used by clinicians as a diagnostic tool (e.g.: lung, 1918; Rapaport, Gill and Schafer, 1968); and it has also been employed by cognitive psychologists as a way of elucidating associative and semantic relationships in memory (e.g.: Deese, 1965; Cramer, 1968). Galton (1907) used free association to investigate his own thought processes and even divided his associations into three representational types; verbal, visual, and what he called 'histrionic' .
