Manual of the Psychological Tests and Procedures in Use at the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Retreat. Published by the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Institute, the Institute of Living, Founded 1822. Printed by the Hartford Retreat, 1941. Offset printed, 11” 8”, ca. 125pp. Staple bound, with original wrappers. Condition: very good condition, save that the rear wrapper is missing. NO COPIES are located in WorldCat/OCLC. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their 6mm “LC” perforated in the front wrapper, deaccessioned in the Pamphlet Collections sale. $450
A covering letter for the publication—coming from the psychiatrist -in-chief of the Hartford Retreat—states that “this descriptive booklet has been prepared to enable the members of the Medical Staff to have full information concerning the facilities and services offered by the Psychological Division”. Evidently staff was supposed know the tests and their details and so the tests in their full text were bound together.
This is an extremely interesting and possibly in-house collection of 25 different intelligence tests, personality inventories, diagnostic tests, and a few other miscellaneous exams and tests. Each test is an obvious stand-alone, and I was surprised to see them all together—in general the entire test seems to only rarely be reproduced in full. Included in the publication are:
[A] Intelligence Tests: (1) Terman-Binet; (2) Otis Self-Administrating Test; (3) Kuhlmann-Anderson Test; (4) Weschler-Bellevue Scale; (5) Army Alpha; (6) Army Beta; (7) Arthur Performance Scale; (8) Herring Revision of the Binet.
[B] Personality Inventories: (9) Bernreuter Personality Inventory ; (10) Colgate B-2; (11) Colgate C-2; (12) Pressey X-O Test; (13) Thurstone Personality Schedule; (14) Neymann Kohlstedt Test.
[C] Diagnostic Tests: (15) Jung Free Association Test; (16) Babcock Test; (17) Shipley-Hartford Retreat Test for Mental Impairment; (18) Bolles, Rosen and Landis Performance Tests.
[D] Miscellaneous Tests: (19) Terman M-F Test; (20) Specific Interest Tests; (21) Educational Achievement; (22) Steinquist Mechanical Aptitude Test; (23) MacQuarrie Mechanical Ability Tests; (24) National Safe Drivers Test; (25) Moral Judgment Test.
All of these are listed in the preface of the document and are complete and present. There is a listing for “Rorschach Ink Blot Test” though that test is not present, and it seems as though it was never bound (i.e. “stapled) with the rest of the tests. (There is a small penciled “x”next to this entry, which leads me to believe that it was just never included with the assembly.)
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