Several clinicians look at the TAT results of a hospitalized patient. The patient described the characters on a card as not speaking to each other. One clinician says this means the patient has a lot of unresolved anger. Another says it means the patient has a lot of social anxiety. A third says he thinks it means the patient is uninterested in people and prefers to be alone. This demonstrates the following problem with the TAT: __________.

A. scoring and interpretation is very subjective
B. the pictures on the cards are new and updated
C. the amount of time it takes to score and interpret it
D. the lack of training of clinicians on using it


Answer: A

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