The problem of evaluating projective test data for an individual patient in subjective and/or in statistical terms continues to be much discussed. Some clinicians feel that use of statistical norms obscures much of value about the individual protocol. Also the test materials demand that the individual project himself always as a changing being. In ;he case of the Family Attitudes Test (Jackson, 1952), the small child is required to identify with a child of its own age pictured in a rigid form which repeats the parent-sibling situation. For older patients the Four Picture Test (van Lennep, 1958) permits freedom of choice of the sequence in which the cards are responded to but the main figure is male, boy or a man. This test requires that a girl identify with these male figures. To facilitate projection we used a procedure which simulates the comic strip. S is asked to arrange in a sequence all or part of eight plates from Sy~nonds' test (1948) on which a boy is shown. Then S tells a story which is recorded. This procedure has been used for several years for each case study. The present research was based on 150 protocols of male youngsters, ranging from 8 to 18 yr. To establish norms the following response characteristics were studied: (a) number of picrures used for the story by a child at successive ages and for children in each age-group; (b) which pictures were chosen and which ones excluded by children of different age-groups; (c) position of each picture within stories; (d) initial and final pictures; (e) titles for stories; and (f) variation of the significance given to each single picture (i.e., father and mother image, isolation amidst sky-scrapers, etc.). The results of these analyses were evaluated for individual cases. Common solutions could be distinguished from rare solutions within a given age-group. Thus the story as a whole not only revealed the child's problems but also his personal dynamics, his aspiration level, his fears, his relation to the world around him, and so on. The same form of the test given a particular individual at different ages then, tells about his changing attitudes and concepts. A parallel study is planned with stories made up by girls, using nine pictures of a girl figure. REFERENCES