HAND TEST

INTERPRETATION
A. INTERPERSONAL RESPONSES
B. ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSES
C. MALADJUSTIVE RESPONSES
D. WITHDRAWAL RESPONSES
 A. INT RESPONSES
1. Affection (AFF) - interpersonal 2. Dependence (DEP) - interpersonal responses
responses involving an interchange or involving an expressed dependence or need for
bestowment of pleasure, affection or succor from another person. Approximate % for
normals = 7%
friendly feeling. Approximate % for
A hand folded in prayer, asking for
normals = 20%
forgiveness
Waiving to a friend - a greeting
Begging...panhandling
Signaling - saying hi, in a gesture of friendship
A friendly salute to a fellow officer Someone pleading for mercy
Patting someone on the back A drowning person calling for help
Shaking hands Hands in the air- surrender
Petting my cocker spaniel Little child reaching for mother's skirt
The hand of a lover - an embrace Holding hand out to receive something -
Priest blessing someone money
Mother's hand helping her child across the
Saluting your leader
street
Comforting hand of a nurse
Child holding hand up in the class -to
leave the room
 A. INT RESPONSES
3. Communication (COM) - interpersonal 4. Exhibition (EXH) - interpersonal responses which
responses involving a presentation or involve displaying or exhibiting oneself in order to
exchange of information. Approximate % for obtain approval from others or to stress some special
normals = 25% noteworthy characteristic of the hand. Approximate
% for normals = 8%
Giving a speech - wants to make a
Showing off his muscles
point
A mistral man - dancing
Like saying "oh, your joshing"
Showing off her diamond ring
A child holding fingers up, showing
A ballet dancer with graceful hand movements
how old he is
Making shadow picture on the wall
Describing something to somebody
Hand of a lady held out to be kissed
Communicating with your wing-man Child showing off his clean hands
Talking with your hands A comedian doing his stuff
Saying "don't you understand" Like Hitler - on the balcony receiving heils form
Playing that italian game: rock, paper, his people- he's a big deal
scissors Flashing her new bracelet
 A. INT RESPONSES

5. Direction (DIR) - interpersonal 6. Aggression (AGG) - interpersonal

responses involving influencing the responses involving the giving of pain,
activities of dominating, or directing
hostility, or aggression. Approximate %
others. Approximate % for normals= 20%
Policeman saying stop for normals = 20%
Teacher sending child to the board Trying to scare someone
Traffic signals, making a right turn Grabbing someone with violence
Giving a command A judo punch to break the
Shoving a dog out the door shoulder blade
Leading an orchestra
Making a fist - to hit somebody
Inciting the workers to riot
Quarterback calling a huddle Slapping a fly
Someone saying hush A punch in the mouth
Crain operator - lower the boom Pushing someone off a cliff
 B. ENV RESPONSES
1. Acquisition (ACQ) - environmental 2. Active (ACT) - environmental responses
responses involving an attempt to acquire or involving an action or attitude designed to
obtain a goal or object. The movement is constructively manipulate, attain, or alter an
ongoing and the goal is as yet unobtained objective or goal. ACT responses are
and to some extent still in doubt. distinguished form ACQ responses in that the
Approximate % for normals = 20% object or goal has been, or will be accomplished
Reaching for something on a high shelf and the issue is therefore not in doubt.
Kid trying to get into the cookie jar
Approximate % for normals 65%
Trying to catch a football
Might be typing
Jumping up to grab hold of a tree branch
Picking up a coin
Stretched out - grabbing for something
Writing a pencil
going by
Grabbing for something that has fallen Sprinkling salt
Reaching for the rung of a ladder Carrying a suitcase
A climber - trying to grab a ledge Threading a needle
Like on a bus - reaching for the strap Throwing aball
Groping for something caught in a Dropping money in a till
crevice Pulling in a fish
 B. ENV RESPONSES
3. Passive (PAS) - environmental responses involving an attitude of
rest and/or relaxation in relation to the force of gravity and a
deliberate and appropriate withdrawal of energy from the hand.
Approximate % for normals= 15%
Just resting
Laying your hand flat on the table
Drying your fingernails
Laying out like this - just limp
Hand folded in your lap
A sleeping hand
Just dangling over a chair arm
A natural, relaxed hand. Like in the statue of the thinker
Hanging limp at your side
Folded over - like when your relaxed reading book
 C. MAL RESPONSES
1. Tension (TEN) - energy is being exerted but 2. Crip (CRI) - hand is crippled, sore, dead,
nothing or little is accomplished. A feeling of disfigured, sick, injured or incapacitated.
anxiety, tension or malaise is present. TEN A dead person's hand
responses also include cases where energy is
Someone's ill-sick hand-just hanging on
exerted to support oneself against the pull of
to life
gravity accompanied by a definite feeling of strain
and effort. Looks sort a deformed
A fist clenched in anger That hand is bleeding
Pushing upward Cerebral palsy
Stretching and tensing the fingers Been in an accident. Hanging out in the
Tensing hand to see if nerves are steady car window
Clenching your fingers to keep from saying the All beat up
wrong things
Woman's hand. She's been hurt, raped
Hanging onto the edge of a cliff
maybe
Holding something very tight
A clenched fist of nervousness Fingers cut off
Hand is stretched and twisted back Got black spots on it
Straining on a parallel bar Frozen stiff
 C. MAL RESPONSES
3. Fear (FEAR) - responses in which the hand is threatened with pain, injury,
incapacitation, or death. A FEAR response is also scored if the hand is clearly
perceived as meting of pain, injury, incapacitation or death to the subject or to the
person with whom the subject identifies.
Trembling... it's frightened by something
Person going down for the 3rd time
Shielding his face- against an atomic blast
Pretty morbid... terrified.. ugh
Walled in. Trying to get out but can't
My father's hand... like he's going to hit me (subject cries)
Like a hand in the night- going to strangle me
Falling back. Trying to save himself
Raised up to ward off a blow or a flying glass or something
Being sucked into quicksand
 D. WITH RESPONSES
1. Description (DES) - subject can do no 2. Bizarre (BIZ) - a response predicated on hallucinatory
more than acknowledge the presence of content, delusional ideation or other peculiar,
the hand with perhaps a few pathological thinking. The response partially or
completely ignores the drawn contours of the hand
accompanying inconsequential details of
and/or incorporates bizarre, idiosyncratic, or morbid
feeling tones.
content. One genuine BIZ response pathognomic of
Just a hand serious disturbance.
Palm up-that all The world-just looking at a distance-trying to get
Just a straight out... not doing anything a feel
A left hand-lady- that all Give no hand as black. Pick up mama
Firm hand... nothing special A back bug
A fist-no, nothing A crocodile creeping along the wall
Hand with a string tied around its Death's head... skull, skeleton, death
Hand of a virgin.. snow.. its pure white
finger
Culture, antidote, Dr. Heart, sleeping gas
A plain, ordinary hand
A hand cord-going up to see St. Thomas
Five fingers. Two fingers together. That
See muscles? Brain that comes from sunflower
all Bones, finger bones, bone-bones,heart-bones
Fingers closed-nothing else
 D. WITH RESPONSES
3. Failure (FAIL) - subject can give no scorable response whatsoever
to a particular card. A FAIL is tabulated in computing summary
scoring, but is not included in the response total, R, since it is not
really a response but a failure to respond.