Draw Someone

Vast research was done among several psychoanalysts and psychologists into human figure drawings. The subject would be asked to draw a person, being given as little information as possible in order not to lead the subject in any particular way. The subject nevertheless would frequently ask the following kinds of questions and make several comments. Who should I draw, should it be a stick person or the whole body? I don't know how to draw. I hope you don't show it to anyone, etc. When the subject does draw, he is actually revealing how he sees himself, as this is a picture of the self. The following is an alphabetized list of personality traits and how they are identified in a sketch. For the highest degree of accuracy, the subject should draw two or more sketches. Identical drawings, especially those that deviate from the norm, are regarded as conclusive evidence that the subject possesses the trait.

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O:

" Obsessive-compulsive: buttons inconspicuous (as on cuffs), shoelaces, wrinkles, other unnecessary detailing.

" Obsessive control of aggression: fingers with joints and nails carefully indicated.

" Obsessive element accompanying dependency: buttons on cuffs.

" Opposite sex regarded as smarter or as possessing greater social authority: head larger on opposite sex figure.

" Opposite sex viewed as punishing: arms heavy, shaded on opposite sex.

" Oral aggression/sadism: heavily lined mouth.

" Oral-aggressive: single-lined mouth.

" Oral-aggressive/sadistic/simple schizophrenic: teeth shown.

" Orality: open mouth.

" Organicity: head malformed.

" Overt aggression: long fingers.

" Overt aggression/paranoid: claw finger.

" Overt sexual aggression/sexual preoccupation: tie flying or swept out.

P:

" Paranoia: eye, a dot with pressure (unenclosed); eye and ear emphasis; large grandiose figure.

" Paranoid trend: large eyes, staring.

" Parental figure of opposite sex rejecting: arms folded, short; arms omitted or short arms on opposite sex.

" Passive homosexual tendency: bullets, guns, knives, pencils, pens, spears, etc. "masculine" symbols: elongated anatomical area and pointed objects, e.g. bullets, guns, knives, pencils, pens, spears.

" Physical power/drive: broad shoulders.

" Pre-occupation with masturbation: fly on trousers.

" Primitive aggression: nostrils.

" Primitive culture/schizophrenia/professional artists: unclothed, especially male.

" Primitive oral eroticism: several pockets (male figure, male subject) straw, toothpick between lips. Primitive sexual behavior: hat, transparent.

" Problem with control of anger: collar tight.

" Psychopathology of incipient kind: extreme discontinuity in drawing (as head, then feet, shoulders, then legs, etc.)

" Psychotic potential: profuse, smudgy shading.

" Psychotic tendency: body distortions.

R:

" Reality contact (adequate)/absence of thought disorder: normal succession in drawing.

" Rebellion against sexual mores: unclothed figure.

" Regression: infrequent erasure, buttons plus hat; hat, no clothes; hat plus buttons; hair on female, not on male; incomplete trunk.

" Repressed aggression: fists clenched or closed (overt aggression is expressed by fists, which are clenched or closed that are away from the body).

" Repressed aggression/withdrawal: fingers articulated carefully and cut off by line.

" Responsive/uninhibited: rhythmic stroking.

S:

" Satisfaction (genuine) in sexual role: average emphasis on female characteristics, female subject, and neither over-nor under emphasized.

" Schizoid: feet and hands dim or omitted, tight stance, eyes closed, and hair on jaw.

" Schizoid or schizophrenia/somatic pre-occupation: joint emphasis.

" Schizophrenia: unessential details emphasized, tiny primitive features, bizarre details.

" Schizophrenia and/or somatic delusions: internal organs shown.

" Schizophrenic: bizarre features, confusion of full face and profile, ear emphasis, emphasis on joints, failure to recognize grotesqueness of drawings, giraffe neck, gross disproportions, internal organs shown, omission of arms, primitive features with tiny features, unessential detail emphasized, very faint lines.

" (Pre-) Schizophrenic possibility: off-balanced figure.

" Scolding maternal figure possible: mouth omitted on female subject.

" Self-absorption/voyeuristic tendency: small eye.

" Self-conscious/shy: dim face.

" Self-indulgence/uninhibited impulse expression: short, thick neck. Self-portrait: type of person drawn.

" Sex consciousness: heavy line for waist.

" Sex problems (involutional) sexual fantasies/sexual preoccupation: lower body area of female visible through transparent skirt (male subject).

" Sexual conflict: belt emphasized, break in hip line, waistline emphasized, wide shoulders on female (male subject).

" Sexual experiences extensive, up to promiscuity/unsatisfying erotic experience: female characteristics over-stressed (female subject).

" Sexual immorality: hair mussed.

" Sexual inadequacy: handkerchief in coat pocket emphasized, rounded curves, small tie, and male subject.

" Sexual inadequacy and pre-occupation: "masculine" foot.

" Sexual pre-occupation: trunk not closed at bottom.

" Sexual pre-occupation; virility striving: cigarette, pipe.

" Sexual role conflict: opposite sex drawn first, arms and legs distortion or reinforcement, masculine legs on female figure, reluctance or refusal to draw figure of opposite sex.

" Social anxiety with need for contact: head profile with full-faced body.

" Sophisticated oral eroticism: cigarette or pipe between lips.

T:

" Tension: arms close to body, fluctuating line, unbalanced stance.

U:

" Unsatisfying social status: clothes ill fitting.

" Unstable emotional control: waistline bound tightly.

V:

" Virility striving: hair area significant.

" Voyeurism: clothing transparent, unclothed figure (body visible).

" Voyeuristic tendency with guilt: large eyes, no pupil.

W:

" Withdrawal tendency: face turned toward page so that back of head shows.

PS. The subject may be asked to draw a member of a minority group; this reveals attitudes not only to the minority group, but also the subject's projected negative attitudes toward self.

This concludes list O-W.

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