Your comments on using proverbs as a form of assessment is interesting; but the way in which you interpret the answers given by your patients is highly subjective and may not be generalizable. Without testing your hypotheses, your assumptions can only be based on clinical intuition and impressions. While those impressions are certainly not without value, they may not be scientifically valid (i.e., may not accurately reflect the clinical populations you discuss) or reliable (i.e., though a particular interpretation may be accurate in one case, it may not be a reliable interpretation for all or most cases in which it occurs.) If you believe in the usefulness of these proverbs as projective stimuli, why not do a more formal study to see whether certain answers do correlate with the clinical phenomena that you have come to believe are associated with them? I, for one, would love to see the results.