The Object Relations Technique (O.R.T.) is a unique and powerful projective method for personality assessment, first developed in 1955 by Herbert Phillipson at London's famed Tavistock Institute.

 

Since 1995, the non-profit ORT Institute has developed and published the ORT, and is the sole authorized source for its uniquely potent visual stimulus series, the ORT Plates.

We publish a complete ORT Manual for the use of the ORT as personality assessment tool. This single volume is both a tutorial and a reference, offering a fully operationalized method for administering and scoring the ORT — with flow charts, standardized scales of affects and defenses, an instructive case study, and cross references to DSM.

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ORT Institute works to connect and educate active ORT researchers and clinicians in 24 countries around the world.