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As a licensed clinical psychologist (Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago 1985) my career has been devoted primarily to education and training: teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, supervising the clinical work of graduate and postgraduate trainees for a private group practice, and — well over a decade before the Covid19 pandemic — steering the development of a fully-online undergrad major in psychology for the university where I taught. My own clinical practice was limited to conducting adult neuropsychological evaluations for state agencies that served underprivileged clients, while a background in graphic design and programming contributed to the development of psychometric software.

NewCat originated in 1996 as a macOS version (dubbed MacCat) of the Halstead Category Test (HCT), thanks largely to the encouragement of my colleague James Choca, who had developed among the first computer versions of the HCT for DOS and Windows. At the time test publishers were anticipating Apple’s imminent demise, so this Mac-only version never found a commercial outlet.

Now rewritten from scratch as a cross-platform application for both current Windows and Mac operating systems — with test figures redrawn to support the new high-resolution computer screens and a number of new features — NewCat is published here as a more affordable alternative to other commercial versions of the test. My hope is to encourage grad students under qualified supervision to become familiar with the HCT and possibly even contribute to a new generation of research.

Apart from NewCat, I programmed for Dr. Choca cross-platform versions of his bilingual (English/Spanish) Emotional Assessment Survey (EAS) and his Hermann10 Rorschach Scoring Assistant. Although he has since retired development of the EAS, with his permission it is still available as a free download from my website (https://newpsyc.com/eas-sabe/).

For questions and technical support regarding NewCat, one option is to use the website Contact page, which includes a convenient form to submit questions and comments. Alternatively, I can be contacted directly at the email address below. In either case, I promise a quick response.

Jeffrey M. Kunka, Ph.D.
August 2026