SIS

Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health

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

SIS Journal
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✨ 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. Fund Manager Performance in Bull and Bear Markets: A Financial Risk Attitude

This study investigates how the personality factors of financial risk attitude, stress tolerance and complex problem solving predict investment performance in relation to rising versus descending market periods. The performance of 40 professional fund managers was measured over a...

Silver Jubilee

Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) emerged as an extension to the existing inkblot techniques, including the Rorschach Inkblot Test. This unique assessment method relies heavily on content analysis to understand the inner cry of a person and penetrates deeper layers of unconscious in o...

Personality and Investment Performance: A Financial Risk Attitude

The article presents empirical results of forty fund managers‘ implicit and explicit motives in relation to five year risk adjusted investment performance. The first step of the study was to create composite variables from three personality tests: Zulliger, Wartegg and Personal...

6. Stress

The present study has attempted to assess daily hassles stress, coping and emotional processing in two groups of Chronic Pain patients- viz. Chronic Headache and Chronic Low Back Pain and further compared the groups with a Normal group. The sample comprised of 22 patients sufferi...

6. SIS Guided Therapy for an Adolescent Girl’s Tension Headaches

The Somatic Inkblot series (Cassell, 1990, Cassell and Dubey, 2003) was administered to a 17 years old girl of 12th grade. She was suffering from tension headache for last 2 years. Her other complaints were feeling heaviness and tightness in head, nausea, muscular stress, tin...

7. Application of SIS in Business Organization

The Somatic Inkblot test has been used in industry during selection and employees counseling. It has been found as an effective tool to ascertain if the new incumbents possess certain personality traits such as team building, interpersonal relationship and intra-psychic balance. ...

3. Personality and Nursing Work: A Comparison between Professional and Student Nurses

Our study aimed at pointing out similarities and differences between Students and Professional Nurses with a Projective Test, hypothesizing that professional practice could improve empathic competences. Moreover, it could enhance stress pointers in Professional Nurses with respec...

11. Mental Health and Mindfulness: Mediational Role of Positive and Negative Affect

A consensus is emerging among the researchers that mindfulness is associated with better physical health and psychological well-being. The present study attempts to explore the possible role of positive and negative affectivity in explaining the relationship between mindfulness a...

10. Differential Affective Profile of Patients with Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease

The present paper attempts to explore the profile of affect related traits and abilities that may potentially discriminate the patient suffering from diabetes from those having Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) apart from discovering the specific set of affect related traits/abilitie...

9. Body Imagery in Vertigo Patients

A total sample pf 25 adults, educated, vertigo patients was administered SIS-II to find out whether their body imagery is in touch with reality. It was found that only 31% of the responses on vital organs concorded, indicating denial of body imagery in vertigo patients.

8. A Study of Somatic Inkblot Series-I in Coronary Cases

75 coronary cases and 75normal subject, all male mostly matriculate, in the age range of 30-55 years, were administered SIS-I Test. Results suggested that the coronary cases tend to give low number of responses, unhealthy somatic imagery,low typical responses with rejection of mo...

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