SIS

Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health

International Peer-Reviewed Publication • Semiannual • Published from Medina, Ohio, USA

SIS Journal
Projective Psychology Portal
✨ Thematic Knowledge Discovery

The Mind’s Constellation

A thematic, interactive journey into 30 years of projective psychology, clinical psychodiagnostics, and somatic memory. Explore 307+ peer-reviewed articles across 6 foundational psychological realms.

307+ Peer-Reviewed Papers
6 Curated Psychological Realms
12 Interactive Case Mysteries
30 SIT Assessment Plates
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33 Studies

Trauma, PTSD & Somatic Resilience

Unspoken bodily memory, catastrophe survival, and subconscious trauma integration.

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10 Studies

Dreams, Hallucinations & The Unconscious

Latent dream architecture, nocturnal terror, and symbolic psychotic imagery.

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58 Studies

Severe Psychopathology & Diagnostics

Differential diagnosis in schizophrenia, affective psychoses, and suicidality markers.

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60 Studies

Attachment, Intimacy & Family Systems

Primary object relations, maternal deprivation, marital conflict, and identity formation.

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11 Studies

Workplace Autonomics & High-Stress Adaptation

Autonomic nervous reactivity, executive burnout, speech disfluency, and organizational health.

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135 Studies

Art, Creativity & Projective Psychology Pioneers

The 100-year history of projective science, creative genius, and foundational masters.

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📖 The Clinician’s Interactive Casebook

Step inside 12 authentic psychiatric cases. Follow each patient from intake history, through subconscious inkblot projections, to clinical decoding and longitudinal recovery.

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3 Anatomical Rorschach Responses and Death Symbolism

Three case histories involving individuals suffering from existential death anxiety were administered the Rorschach Inkblot Test to illustrate the responses indicating symbolic death content and death anxiety. The over emphasis on somatic content (many ‘Anatomical’ responses)...

7. Efficacy of Cognitive Drill Therapy in Treatment of Specific Phobia

Specific phobia is a highly prevalent condition which may interfere in occupational and social life of persons affected with this disorder. Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Desensitization Therapies have been well documented as effective treatments for phobia. Cognitive Drill Thera...

10. Areas of Research in Somatic Inkblot Series

Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) was conceptualized in 1959 by Dr. Wilfred A. Cassell and has attracted clinicians internationally. The SIS is based on the theory of body symbolism, somatic imagery theory and inner cry for help. Somatic Imagery Theory proposes that “everyone has a ...

2. What does it Socially Symbolize When a Woman Dreams of Having a Penis? Wilfred A. Cassell

Dream is the language of unconscious mind. It brings the suppressed unprocessed unconscious material hidden in the store house of unconscious mind. Its symbolic interpretation helps in understanding the inner world of the dreamer. Symbolic interpretation may further help as an a...

1. Editorial: Religious Symbols and Astronomical Projections

Please be forewarned. This editorial may activate introspective spiritual connected cognitions having neurophysiologic linked emotionally charged memories. These may prove potentially psycho-spiritually disturbing! In completing the following mental exercise, it might be subjecti...

2. Dream and SIS Symbolism in Bereavement

Sometimes the body can die before its human resident can cognitively recognize the inevitable, pervasive "shadow of Death”. Such was the accidental death of a healthy elderly married American woman. When a large truck crashed from out of her visual field into her car, her...

1. Editorial: SIS Psychotherapeutic Applications

I invite readers to consider the 21st century human’s precarious state and our transient existence on the planet earth. Visualize our planet’s journey, spinning in the vast Cosmos prior to the anticipated annihilation the sun. Recall that the earth, the fragile human body pul...

1. Editorial: A Somatic Inkblot Series “bucket list” Exercise

In less than a year, (if “God” wishes) my body will become eighty years old. Thankfully I do not feel its age! Yet, my energy for both personal and professional activities gives out much earlier at his senior stage in the life cycle. I now have to prioritize my personal life...

2. Spiritual Warfare and SIS Spiritual Symbols

“SPIRITUAL WAREFARE” is a symbolically deceptive religious practice that can rob primitive people of their historical culture/dream based positive spiritual symbols. Throughout recorded history, powerful authoritarian leaders have either openly, or deceptively, inflicted thei...

Medical

Shortly after world war II, investigators began to study the interaction between psychological and physiological process in health and disease. More recently, there has been consideration into assessing the impact of spirituality on this complex interact ional system. This presen...

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