The Object Relations Technique

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The O.R.T. is a potent and innovative tool designed for the study and exploration of personality, first developed in 1955 by Herbert Phillipson at the Tavistock Institute.

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A decade of research and development by Dr. Martin A. Shaw at the not-for-profit O.R.T. Institute has brought this unique method forward in its highly advanced and official new edition — providing a complete system for a modern psychoanalytic modeling of individual personality, based on actual subject perception.

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Incorporating both explicit figurative cues and abstraction, the Plates take a unique place in the pantheon of projective methods. However unlike the Rorschach and TAT, the ORT is not a test — it's a ➥tool of assessment that maps the personality along specific developmental and relational lines, allowing the clinician or researcher to develop a powerful spreadsheet panorama of personality, with major ➥value in treatment.

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“A Perceptual Approach to Personality”

 The O.R.T. enables psychologists and psychotherapists to:

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• Clearly model the object relations (O-R) for complete diagnostic assessments.

• Forge confident and powerfully relieving analyses with each patient, with unusual efficiency.

• Conduct research that is fully both controlled and psychoanalytic.

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Practitioners in twenty-three countries are today utilizing the O.R.T. in research and clinical settings.

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Learn more about us

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The O.R.T. Manual • The O.R.T. Plates