Editing Thematic Apperception Test (section)

==Popular culture==
Due to the test's earlier popularity within psychology, the TAT has appeared in a wide variety of media. For example, the [[Thomas Harris]] novel ''[[Red Dragon (novel)|Red Dragon]]'' (1981) includes a scene where the imprisoned psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. [[Hannibal Lecter]] mocks a previous attempt to administer the test to him. [[Michael Crichton]] included the TAT in the battery of tests given to the disturbed main character Harry Benson in his novel ''[[The Terminal Man]]'' (1972). The test is also given to the main characters in two widely differing tales about the human mind: ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' (1962) and [[Daniel Keyes]]'s ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'' (1958–1966).  Italian poet [[Edoardo Sanguineti]] wrote a collection of poetry called ''T.A.T'' (1966–1968) that refers to the Test.