Historical Significance :
The TAT was originally described by Morgan Murray in 1935. Since then psychologists & psychiatrists had made an attempt to elicit meaningful responses of subjects to pictures .
These include workers like ‘Libby, who used such a procedure with children in 1908, and finally Schwartz who developed his social situation Test in (1932). as stated by Bellak (1954) None of these forerunners however has attained the popularity of TAT , which at present ranks second only to the Rorschach Test . (bellak, Leopold , 1954).
Belleak (195) has narrated the basic conception of a projective method for diagnosing group properties was developed at the research centre for group dynamics by Horwitz and Cartwright . The technique involves a projective picture test with slightly a modified TAT instruction, was first employed at the National Training Laboratory for Group Development At Bethel Maine , in 1947.
TAT explores the subtle dynamics factors of the personality which would be the subject of investigation only under specific circumstances. TAT is a content test , it measures the dynamics in interpersonal relationship. It examines the ‘ hierarchy of need’ and ‘structure of the compromises between id , ego and superego’. TAT is considered as diagnostic and prognostic tool.
In this present study the TAT was administered on 30 substance users namely in four categories: Brown sugar , Buprenorphine , Ganja and alcoholism . All of them were male . Their age range belong to 25-40 . 75% of them were married. Most of them were from lower to middle class socioeconomic status .