a.

THEME
b. Self-sex; if younger, emotional fixation at that age
c. Self-sex; if older, identification with parent image
d. Line (snowman, peanut man); evasion of bodily problems
Cartoon-like drawings; handles problem in a concealed way
e. Stick figures no resistance, complete denial of sex, schizophrenic, psychopath,
child-like behaviour
f. Well-adjusted individual usually draw people they like. Sick people or individual
draw people they don’t like.

1. SUCCESSION (SEQUENCE) INTERPRETATION

a. Starting with feet and working upward
or starting with the facial features and
enclosing them
b. Hesitation to go beyond hands or
beneath the waist
c. Opposite sex drawn first
d. Confused scattering of drawing
2. COMPARISON OF THE FIGURE
a. Figure almost the same
b. Female figure drawn bigger than the
male figure
c. Male figure bigger than female
3. SIZE AND LOCATION
a. Figure toward the left
b. Figure towards the right
c. High up on the page
d. Low down on the page
e. Scattered figure in the page with
expansive use of paper and
extravagance of energy
f. Very large figure placed aggressively
in the middle of the page
g. Placement is relatively high on the
page
h. Micrographic figure
i. Thin figure
- Interpersonal maladjustment involving
reluctance or incapacity to undertake
emotional commitment
- Reluctance to face conflicts relating to
such areas
- Confusion as to sex identification; true
homosexual attachment or dependence
on parent of the opposite sex
- Plainlessly impulsive disorder, manic
excitement, schizophrenic thinking
- Does not recognize the role o sexes
- Recognize female as the stronger sex,
powerful than male
- Normal, recognize the male as he
powerful sex
- Environmentally-oriented
- Self-oriented
- Optimistic
- Depressed
- Manic
- Grandiose paranoid with high self-
esteem, egocentric
- Lack of insight, unjustified optimistic,
low level of energy and lack of secure
footing
- Deeply repressed and neurotically
inclined subject
- Repressed and negative schizophrenic
with low energy level
j. Small figure - Constricted ego, anxiety emotional
dependence; telling of discomfort and
restriction
k. Large figure - Subject is responsible for
environmental less with feelings
l. If drawing is not self-concept figure - The drawing maybe a projection of the
ideal self-image or projection of
parent figure
m. Tiny drawings - Feelings of inadequacy, withdrawal
tendencies
4. ACTION OR MOVEMENT
a. Drawing seated or reaching individual - Low energy level, lack of drive,
emotional exhaustion
b. Drawing suggestive or much activity - Strong impulses toward motor
or considerable movement activity, restlessness, reduced man of
action, hyper manic
c. Drawing with clear impulses to move - Schizoid or schizophrenic individual
but blocked by statistics, artistic or whose strivings towards
introversive features accomplishment of power are strong
but fantasy bound
5. SYMMETRY
a. Disturbed symmetry - Inadequacy, incoordination
b. Excessive symmetry - Depression; intellectualization;
obsessive compulsive; emotionally
cold and distant; controlled
personality among neurotics
c. Diffusion - Hysterical, careless; poor control over
activity
d. Extreme rigid effects - Rigidity correlated with corresponding
postural estates in subject from
psychosomatic point of view, maybe
considered a hypertonic muscular
defense against the released of
repressed emotional states and ob the
other hand as a protection versus a
menacing environment
e. Cross disproportion - Schizophrenia
f. Lack of symmetry - Insecurity
6. LINE QUALITY AND LINE
FORM
a. Combination of firm, heavy light lines - Assualtiveness
b. Dim lines - Timidity
c. Firm lines - Individuals with great deal of drive
and ambition
d. Fading lines - Hysteric tendency
e. Fluctuating lines - Tension
f. Jagged lines - Hostility
g. Line break - Conflict area
h. Reinforced lines - Anxiety, insecurity, conflict area,
repression, particularly with reference
to area reinforced
i. Sketchy lines - Anxiety, timidity
j. Thin elongated lines - Tension
k. Uninterrupted straight lines - Decisive
l. Very faint lines - Depressed, inadequate, withdrawn,
schizophrenic
m. Full view, hand heavy and reinforced, - Wish for social participation, contrast
facial features sketched dimly with shyness, timidity, self-
consciousness in actual depression
n. Side view, lines of profile empathic - Uncertain withdrawal and artistic
while lines of balance of usually large realization of narcissistically oriented
figure drive to social dominance
o. Angular body - aggression, critical masculinity
p. Curved lines on body of male - Effeminacy
q. Emphasis on circles depicting body - Effeminate, narcissistic,
submissiveness
r. Few curves, many sharp edges - Aggressive, poorly adjusted
s. Rounded lines - Femininity
t. Straight lines - Aggressiveness
7. DIFFERENT STROKES
a. Circular stroke - Dependency, feminine tendency, lack
of assertion, dependent, emotional
b. Straight line stroke - Assertiveness (as subject to children)
c. Constricted stroking - Tension, withdrawal
d. Energetic unhesitant stroke - Perseverance, insecurity
e. Horizontal stroke - Emphasis on fantasies, femininity,
weakness
f. Indeterminate vacillating stroke - Insecurity, lack of perseverance
g. Length of strike movement - Decrease in excitable subjects,
increase in inhibited ones
h. Long stroke - Controlled behaviour
i. Rhythmic stroking - Responsive, uninhibited
j. Short sketchy stroke - Anxiety, uncertainty
k. Short stroke - Impulsive behaviour
l. Vertical stroke - Assertiveness, determined,
hyperactive
8. STANCE
a. Legs pressed closely together - Tense, self-conscious, awkward and
apprehensive, neurotic when this is
extreme in female figure (female
subject); fear of sexual attacks (male
 subjects); anticipation resistance to
fancied attacks
b. Thigh stance combined with arms - Paranoid schizoid
pressed tightly to body as if to
ward of the blow of environment
c. Legs wide apart - Insecurity of feeling expressed in tiny
painted or shaded reinforced first by
round line or hesitant to paint line
throughout
d. Legs apart, figure is planted firmly - Among chronic alcoholics
onthe ground as if drifting
thespaces
9. PERSPECTIVE
a. Consistent profile - Index evasiveness, suggest fear of
commitment
b. Full view - Tendency of exhibitionism, display
c. Overdressed front view - Exhibitionism
d. Profile - More mature
e. Hands behind each or in pockets - Drive evasion
f. Head behind each or in pockets - Social uneasiness, guilt in relation to
social contact, degree of dishonesty,
drive to exhibit one’s body which
prevents executions of consistent
profile
g. Confused and more in profile and - Low grade defectiveness organic
mouth full view
10. PROFILE
a. Full, inclined head to body to - Evasion of reality or conflict
extremities
b. Silhouette - Depersonalization
c. Back view - Withdrawn from reality
d. Cut lined only - Total withdrawal
11. ANOMALIES
a. Area depicted as broken line, - Feeling of masculine anxiety or
damage or otherwise impaired masculine inadequacy
b. Bizarre details Schizophrenic
c. Body distortion - Psychotic tendency
d. Deviant drawing with a little - Character disorder, such as antisocial
evidence of anxiety personality (psychopath) psychosis
e. Disheveled of part - Felt lack of status, low self-esteem
f. Distortion of part - Conflict relative to the part
g. Elongated anatomical area - Phallic symbol
h. Internal organ shown - Schizophrenic, somatic delusion
i. Omission of parts - Conflict relative to the part
j. Transparency - Poor judgement
 k. Unessential details emphasized - Schizophrenic
l. Erasures - Neurotic
12. APPERTANCES
a. Aggressive content such daggers, - Delinquent tendency
gun, spears
b. Belt emphasized - Sexual conflict
c. Body emphasis - Egocentric, schizoid
d. Buckle - Dependency
e. Buttons - Dependency, immaturity, inadequacy
f. Buttons on clothing over breast of - Affection deprivation, dependence,
figure possible identification with mother
g. Buttons on cuffs - Obsessive elements accompanying
dependency
h. Buttons inconspicuous (as of - Obsessive compulsive
cuffs)
i. Buttons on midline - Maternal dependence, somatic
preoccupation
j. Buttons plus hat - Regression
k. Cane - Impotency, involutional resistance to
sexual decline, virility striving
l. Cigarettes - Sexual preoccupation, virility striving
m. Cigarette between lips - Sophisticated oral eroticism
n. Clothing carefully rendered - Egocentric, immature, over concern
for material criteria for social status
o. Clothing detail elaboration (male - Homosexual trend
subject)
p. Clothing elaboration, grooming - Emphasis on possession and social
prestige
q. Over clothed - Egocentricity, antisocial personality
(“psychopathic”) tendency for social
approval and dominance
r. Clothes ill-fitting - Unsatisfying social status
s. Clothing transparent - Voyeurism
t. Collar tight - Problem with anger control
u. Disguised (clown-like, etc.) - Dissatisfaction
OTHER THINGS ADDED TO
THE DRAWING
a. Earrings - Exhibitionism, sexual preoccupation
b. Gun - Aggressive tendency, hostility, sexual
preoccupation
c. Handkerchief of coat pocket - Fantasy relative to female genitalia
emphasized
d. Hat plus button - Regression
e. Hat transparent - Primitive sexual behaviour
f. High heel on male (male subject) - Homoerotic tendency
 g. Knife
h. Mask
i. Pants transparent (legs shown
through)
j. Pipe
k. Pipe between lips
l. Pocket
m. Pocket emphasized
n. Several pocket (male subject on
male figure)
o. Shoelaces, wrinkles, other
unnecessary detailing
p. Skirt ankles length on female
subject (male subject)
q. Straw, toothpick between lips
r. Tie
s. Tie, flying or swept out
t. Trousers fly
u. Uniform of cowboy or soldier or
male figure of male subject
v. V-neckline on female (male
subject)
w. Weapon
x. Yo-yo
13. SHADING
a. Shading
b. Shading in sexual areas
c. Smudgy shading
d. Heavy shading
e. Profuse, smudgy shading
f. Slight or minimal shading
g. Shading in chest of figure
h. Shading in breast of female (Male
subject)
i. Shading in sexual area of female
(male subject)
j. Shading in boundaries of clothing
k. Unconscious treatment of skin as
though transparent
14. HEAD (Center for intellectual
power; control of body impulses)
- Aggressive tendency, hostility
- Cautious, secretive, possible feelings
of depersonalization and estrangement
- Homosexual anxiety
- Sexual preoccupation
- Sophisticated oral-eroticism
- Affection deprivation, maternal
dependency
- Dependent psychopath
- Passive homosexual tendency
- Obsessive compulsive
- Maternal figure
- Primitive oral-eroticism
- Masculine striving, sexual inadequacy
- Over sexual aggression sexual
preoccupation
- Preoccupation with masturbation
- Need for greater status and recognition
that subject feels he possess
Breast fixation, voyeuristic tendency
- Aggressiveness
- Immaturity, masturbatory fixation
- Anxiety
- Anxiety relative in sexual functions
- Anal-erotic interest
- Aggressive tendency, anti social
personality
- Psychopathic potential
- Relative freedom from anxiety
- Sensitive to physical inferiority
- Inhibited sexual concern
- Sexual sadistic male
- Conflict in regard to body
- Serious lapses of judgement especially
to sexual behavior
a. Head emphasisb. Big head - Depressed and emotionally withdrawn
b. Disproportionately small head (big - Depressed
body)
c. Disproportionately small head (big - Obsessive compulsive
body)
d. Drawing one - Like physical power
e. The sex that given the larger head - Accorded the intellect and authority
f. Tiny head
- Lollipops - Immaturity
- Big body - Intellectual capacity
- Body not well defined - Brain damage
g. Fragmented heads, looks like robot - Lack of control of impulses denial
about guilt
h. Flat shaded head - Fear of castration or rejection
i. No frailties, just plain head - Depersonalization given by
schizophrenic paranoid
j. Ear emphasized or enlarged - Auditory hallucinations, ideas of
reference; paranoid or schizoid; ear
injury or hearing disability; sensitivity
to attitudes of others
k. Ears large - Sensitive to criticism (children as
subject)
l. Head dim - Self-conscious, shy
m. Head drawn last - Conflict over interpersonal relation:
possible thought disorder
n. Head enlarge - Concern about sufficiency intellect
(brain damage, retarded), overt
ideational (including paranoid), pride
over intellect
o. Head large on figure of opposite sex - Opposite sex possesses greater social
authority, regarded as smarter
p. Head malformed - Organicity
q. Head split - Feminine identification dealt with by
narcissism and obsessive compulsive
mechanism
15. HAIR
a. Balding male figure - Felt lack of virility
b. Beard, mustache, other facial hair - Doubts about virility with
compensatory virility striving; sexual
inadequacy
c. Hair emphasis (shaded) - Virility symbol; with heavy shading
possible anxiety over sensual needs
d. Hair emphasis - Infantile or regressed sex drives;
sensuality or sensual needs
e. Hair on female, not on male - Regression
f. Hair given much attention - Narcissism, possible homosexual
 tendency
g. Hair on jaws - Schizoid
h. Hair mussed - Sexual immorality
i. Hair parted on middle - Feminine identification dealt with by
narcissism and obsessive-compulsive
mechanism
j. Hair reinforced - Assaultiveness
k. Sparse, unpressured hair - Inadequate virility
l. Hair white on male figure - Felt lack of masculinity and virility
16. FACE
a. Bushy eyebrow - Uninhibited
b. Trimmed eyebrow - Disdain, refinement
c. Chin emphasized - Compensation for inadequacy,
indecision, fear of responsibility (dim
line elsewhere fantasy)
d. Chin emphasized on opposite sex - Compensation
e. Chin enlarge - Dependency on opposite sex; opposite
sex regarded as stronger
f. Chin exaggerated - Aggressive drive
g. Eye a circle (no pupil) - Compensation for felt weakness,
indecision
h. Eye a dot with pressure, unenclosed - Egocentric hysteric, egocentricity,
immaturity, regression
i. Eye emphasized - Ideas of reference, paranoia
j. Eye prominent - Externalized regression
k. Eye small - Assaultiveness
l. Eye closed - Self-absorption, voyeuristic tendency
m. Eye large, staring - Schizoid
n. Eyes and lashes large - Paranoid trend
o. Eyes reinforced - Homosexuality
p. One eye big, another small - Assaultiveness, weakening of
personality, stress disintegration
q. Furtive and suspicious eye - Conveys ideas of reference
r. Piercing - Aggressive social tool
s. Orbit area of the eye indicated by a - Sting usual curiosity but guilt
line; maybe large but actual eyes are connected with that function,
tiny immature voyeuristic conflict
t. Omission of pupil, drawing only - World is perceived as undifferentiated
outline of the eye mass of stimulation with little
discrimination of details
u. Face dim - Self-conscious, shy
v. Facial expression - May express attitudes which subject
feels other people have towards him,
rather than his attitudes towards them,
prevailing moods and attitudes
 w. Facial expression placating
x. Facial expression self-preoccupied
y. Features childlike
z. Features effeminate (male subject)
Aa. Feautures mask-like
Bb. Features over emphasized
Cc. Feature primitive, shy
Dd. Lashes long
Ee. Lashes on male
Ff. Lips full on male
Gg. Elaborated cupid bow (combined with
cosmetized features)
Hh. With toothpick or straw
Ii. With cigarette gum
Jj. Mouth clown like
Kk. Mouth concave, oral receptive
Ll. Mouth emphasized
Mm. Mouth heavy line
Nn. Mouth markedly full, open or oval
Oo. Mouth omitted on female subject
Pp. Mouth open
Qq. Mouth line single
Rr. Detailing with teeth
Ss. Nose broad, flared hooked
Tt. Nose cut-off
Uu. Nose large
Vv. Nose long
Ww. Nose shaded
- Insecurity
- Schizoid
- Infantile social behaviour
- Homosexual trend
- Cautious, secretive, possible feelings
of depersonalization estrangement
- Inadequacy with compensatory
fantasy
- Schizophrenic
- Self-display, seductiveness,
coquettishness
- Effeminacy, homoerotic tendency,
homosexual tendency
- Effeminacy
- Sexually precautious
- Individuals have history of oral
eroticism
- Manifest sexual symbol and when
given particular emphasis and made
active usually represents acute sexual
preoccupation
- Forced amiability, inappropriate effect
- Passive-independency
- Alcoholism, depression, regression
- Oral-aggression, sadism
- Dependent, oral-erotic
- Possible scolding maternal figure;
asthmatic
- Orality
- Oral-aggressiveness
- Infantile, dependent individual whose
dependency is manifested also in
undue emphasis on buttons passive to
receive nourishment
- Contemptuous attitude tendency to
think in derisive social stereotype
- Castration, fears or wishes
- Involutional melancholia, sexual
impotency (adolescents; felt
inadequate male role with striving for
it)
- Impotence
- Castration, maybe projected on
opposite sex
Xx. Nose strong - Masculine assertion
Yy. Nostril - Primitive aggression
17. NECK
a. No neck - Control of body impulses, regressed
individual
b. Line to indicate the neck - Weakening of intellectual control over
body impulses
c. Neck slashed - Suicidal tendency
d. Short neck - Impulsive behaviour rather than
intellectual
e. Presence of Adam’s apple - Masculinity striving; sexual role
confusion (an opposite sex, that sex is
regarded as not virile)
f. Neck emphasis - Need for defensive intellectual control
(children subjects)
g. Neck excessively large - Awareness of physical impulses, with
effort to control them
h. Neck like giraffe - Schizophrenic
i. Neck long - Hysterical swallowing inhibition,
problem in control of anger primitive
drives, schizoid tendency
j. Neck long but thin -inhibition repression
k. Neck narrow - Depression
l. Neck omission - Immaturity, lack of impulse control,
aggression
m. Neck short but thick - Self-indulgence, inhibited impulse
expression
18. TRUNK
a. Body line heavy - Apprehension with neurosis,
depersonalization fears
b. Body line reinforced - Explosive personality (emotional
stability)
c. Body lower area of female visible - Involutional sex problems, sexual
through or transparent skirt (male fantasies, sexual preoccupation
subjects)
d. Body omitted (no trunk); appendages - Denial or repression of physical
attached to the head drives; immaturity or regression;
retardation; primitive character
structure
e. Breast area emphasized - Dependency, sexual and emotional
immaturity; homosexual trend
f. Breast emphasis (female subject) - Feminine identification with dominant
mother
g. Breast emphasis (male subject) - Maternal dependence and domination;
oral dependency
h. Breast small - Maternal figure unnurturing
i. Buttock emphasis - Homosexual trend
j. Buttocks and hips on male figure - Homosexual trend
unusually emphasized large or
rounded
k. Hip emphasis - Homosexual impulses
l. Hip emphasis on male figure (male - Homosexual trend
subject)
m. Hipline break - Sexual conflict
n. Measurement lines or stick frame for - Exhibitionism, perfectionism
body
o. Midline emphasis (stressed midline) - Conversion of somatic preoccupation;
maternal dependence; possibly
schizoid
p. Navel - Dependency (children as subject)
q. Organs-shown (internal organ) - Manic, schizophrenic; schizophrenia;
somatic delusion
r. Sex organ shown - Analysis
s. Sexual anatomy area distorted or - sexual conflict
omitted
t. Broad shoulder - physical power drive
u. Shoulder drooping - dejection; feeling of guilt; lack of
vitality
v. Shoulders exaggerated or any - Feeling of masculine insufficiency
masculine details
w. Shoulders wide on males (male - Compensation for felt inadequacy
subject)
x. Shoulders wide on female (male - Sexual conflict
subject)
y. Shoulder squared - aggressiveness
z. Stick frame for body or measurement - exhibitionism
lines
Aa.Torso of female upper half is - Dependence for maternal figure
emphasized (Male S.)
Ab.Trunk angular or squared - Masculine tendencies
Ac.Trunk incomplete - regression
Ad.Trunk not closed at bottom - Sexual preoccupation
Ae.Trunk rounded - Feminine traits
Af. Trunk rounded, narrow waist on male - Homosexual trend
figures (Male S.)
Ag.Waist a heavy line - Sex consciousness
Ah.Waist narrow, trunk rounded on male - Homosexual trend
figures (Male S.)
Ai. Waist bound tightly - Unstable emotional control
Aj. Waistline emphasized - Sexual conflict
19. HANDS FEET AND FINGERS
 a) Ankles and wrist small - effeminacy
b) Feet and hands dim omitted - schizoid
c) Feet and legs drawn first - Depression; discouragement
d) Feet omitted - Discouragement; withdrawal
e) Feet small (male subject) - Effeminacy, insecurity
f) Finger omitted or over extended - Masturbation guilt
g) fingernails, fingers joints carefully - Compulsive body image problem as
depicted early schizophrenic
a) Fingers articulated and cut-off by line - Repressed aggression
b) Finger claw - Overt aggression; paranoid
c) Fingers grape - Immaturity, infantile traits
d) Fingers, joints and nails carefully - Obsessive control of aggression
indicated
e) Fingers are large - Assaultiveness
f) Fingers fewer than five - Dependency, helplessness
g) Fingers are long - Overt aggression
h) Fingers more than five - Aggression, ambition
i) Fingers no hands - Assaultiveness, infantile aggression
j) Fingers petal - Immaturity, infantile traits
k) Fingers scissors - Subjects are castrating or views
maternal or paternal figures as
castrating
l) Fingers shaded - Guilt (theft or masturbation)
m) Fingers spear - Overt aggression, paranoia
n) Fingers stick - Assaultiveness
o) Fist clenched or closed - Rebellion (close to body, repressed’
out from body, overt)
p) Foot emphasized - Assaultiveness
q) Foot of the male emphasized - Involutional impotency
r) Foot phallic - Sexual inadequacy or preoccupation
s) Hand of female figure in pelvic area - Female regarded as sexually rejecting
(Male Subject)
Aa. Hand and genital area - Auto-eroticism
Bb. Hand-mitten - Represses-aggression
Cc. Hands behind back or pockets - Evasion, guilt, lack of confidence with
hands in pocket may be psychopath
Dd. Hands dim - Externalized aggression
Ee. Hands emphasized Externalized aggression
Ff. Hands exaggerated - Compensation for difficulty with
interpersonal relations or masturbatory
guilt
20. . LIMBS
a) Arms and legs distortion or - Sexual role conflict
reinforcement, left side
b) Armless figure of male (Male subjects) - Strong genital drive associated with
 guilts; wish to castrated
c) Arms close to body - Tension
d) Arms extended from body and over - Externalized aggression
long
e) Arms folded short - Rejecting maternal or paternal figure
of opposite sex
f) Arms heavy shaded on opposite sex - Opposite sex viewed as punishing
g) Arms and legs of male figure is large - Assaultiveness
h) Arms and legs tapering - Effeminacy
i) Arms long - Ambition for accomplishment or
acquisition
j) Arms long and powerful - Needs for autonomy (children as
subjects)
k) Arms long but weak - Dependency, nurturance needs
l) Arms omitted - Guilt; withdrawal
m) Arms omitted or short arms on - Rejection on maternal or paternal
opposite sex figure of the opposite sex
n) Arms over extended, reaching - Dependency, desire for affection
o) Arms pressed to sides - Difficulty in social contact fear of
aggressive impulse
p) Arms reinforced - Assaultiveness
q) Arms short - Lack of ambition
r) Arms strong (male subject) - Aggressive, energetic
s) Arms thin, weak - Lack of achievement
t) Elbows and joints stressed - Compulsive; dependent, indecisive
u) Joint emphasis - Schizoid or schizophrenic
v) Legs and arms of male figure large - Assultiveness
w) Legs long - Needs for autonomy (children as
subjects)
x) Legs masculine on female figure - Sexual role conflict
y) Legs omitted - Discouragement, withdrawal
z) Legs reinforced - Assultiveness
21. NUDITY
a. Idealized nude figure - Voyeurism
b. Nude figures with sexual parts - Rebellion against sexual mores
c. Same-sex figure nude and carefully - Body narcissism, egocentricity,
rendered immaturity
22. PLACEMENT
a. Area variation - High on page, optimism; low on page,
depression; middle of the page,
aggression; left part of the page, self
oriented or introversive; right part of
the page, environment oriented or
extrovert
b. Below mid-point drawings - Concretistic, depressed mood, feelings
 of inadequacy
c. Centered drawings - Emotional, self-centered (children as
subject); security
d. Elevation of drawing above mid-point - Aloofness; fantasy rather than reality
satisfaction
e. Feet on base of page - Need for stability because of
disturbance produced by conflict
f. High-on-page figure (looks adrift) - Insecurity, unrealistic euphoria
g. Large; centered figure - Manic tendencies; paranoid
grandiosity
h. Large figure shifted to the left - Aggressive psychopath with feelings
of inadequacy
i. Left side of page figure - Introversive, self-oriented, tense
j. Middle placement - Overt-aggression
k. Right-side-of page corner drawings - Environmental oriented
l. Upper-left-of-corner drawings - Regression
23. POSTURE
a. Back of male figure to observer (male - Desire to be a woman, feminine
subject) identification
b. Confusion of full-face and profile - Mental retardation; primitive cultural
(profile forehead and nose, full0-face origin; schizophrenic
eyes and mouth)
c. Face turn toward page, so that back of - Withdrawal tendencies
the head shows
d. Full-face figure - Exhibitionistic tendency; social
accessibility; social communications,
social dependency
e. Off-balance figure - Schizophrenic possibility
f. Profile figure - Evasiveness
g. Profile head, full-face body - Social anxiety with need for contact
h. Profile head and legs, full-face trunk - Poor judgment
i. Reclining or seated same sex figure - Emotional exhaustion, lack of drive,
low energy
j. Rigid figure - Defensive restriction or activity
k. Seated figure - Inhibition on lack of drive
l. Seated same sex figure - Reduced drive and energy
m. Self conscious stance - Timid
n. Stance right - Schizoid
o. Stance unbalanced - Tension
p. Stance wide - Aggressive tendencies
q. Stiff posture - Rigid emotional controls
24. PRESSURE
a. Excessive pressure - Anti-social personalities; organics
(includes retardates) paranoids
b. Fluctuating faint line - Clytholymic, impulsive, unstable
c. Heavy pressures
d. Light pressures
e. Pressures
f. Pressure variations
g. Pressured lines
h. Uneven pressured lines
i. Varied pressures
j. Very faint line
25. TASK ORIENTATION
a. Ability appropriately to evaluate
psychotic-looking drawing when
asked to “criticized it”
b. Acceptance of task with minimum
protest, good initial performance
followed by obvious fatigue and
discontinuation of task
c. Apologetic of drawing
d. Decreased pace productivity as
drawing despite difficulties
e. Emphasis on left side of figure
f. Labelling
g. left-to-right stroke
h. persistence with drawing despite
difficulties
i. refusal or reluctance to draw figure of
opposite sex
j. resistance of drawing figure
k. right-to-left stroke
l. sitting on edge of the chair
m. stroke away from subject
n. stroking in (towards the body)
o. stylistic drawing, as caricatured,
facetious, simplified
p. Unawareness of grotesqueness in
drawing
26. COMPOSITE CRITERIA
a. Arms dangling by sides, entreating
facial expression, tiny same sex figure
b. Arms long and hands prominent
female figure (male subjects)
c. Arms long and thin, mouth omitted
d. Arms cut with fist clenched
e. Curvilinear line interrupted
- Energy assertiveness
- Low energy level, restrain, repression
- Aggression, sadism
- Adaptability, flexibility
- Aggressive, assertive
- Anxiety, insecurity
- Emotional unstable, moody
- Schizophrenia
- Criterion for retained reality contact
- Depressed state
- Lack of confidence
- Fatigability, possibly associated with
depression
- Feminine identification
- Circumstantially
- extroversion need for support
- good prognosis, presence for support
- sexual role conflict
- evasion of problem, reluctance to
reveal self
- introversion, isolation
- desire to escape from situation; fear of
loneliness, mistrust
- aggression, extroversion
- introversive
- exhibitionistic, secretive tendency
- schizophrenic tendency in drawing
- Conception of self as dependent,
helplessness, insignificant
- Wish for protective maternal figure
- asthmatic
- Aggressive tendencies
- Indecisive
f. Features din with emphasis on head
contour
g. Figure effeminate, with toe exposed
h. Figure effeminate, tie emphasized
i. Figure miniscule, light line pressure
j. Figure micrographic with detail
shading, erasures, pressure variation
k. Figures tiny, primitive features
l. Figures tiny, well depicted features
m. Full bodies with shaded or thin legs
n. Hat on nude figure
o. Head clearly indicated, dim line body
or no body
p. Inability to complete drawing, mark
paucity of details
q. Rounded curves, small tie, male
subject
r. Shoe shaded
27. CONTEXT
a. Clouds
b. Doodling of subject’s name
c. Fence to lean on, ground line
d. Ground line
e. Strong wind in the human figure
drawing
28. FIGURE TYPE
a. Cartoon figure, clown
b. Drawing of male first (female subject)
c. Maternal figures rather than female
sex object (male subject)
d. Opposite sex drawn first
e. Parental figures rather than self-image
f. Peanut man, snowman, stick man
g. Peanut man, stick figure in subject
- Timidity, withdrawal
- Aggressive tendencies
- Homosexual trend
- Constriction, feeling of insignificance
and lack of worth
- Deep repression, neurotic depression
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- Regressed schizophrenic; shrunken
ego
- Alcoholic, involutional senile patients
- Feeling of decline associated with
advancing age (shaded legs maybe
homosexual anxiety)
- Regression
- Compensatory fantasy, feeling of
anxiety or of inferiority relative to
body functions
- Significant depression
- Sexual inadequacy
- Insecurity
- Anxiety, depression
- Egotism, narcissism
- Need for support to help
- Insecurity
- Felt subjection to strong
environmental pressure stress, with
fear of psychosis
- Adolescents with feelings of
inadequacy or rejection; internalized
hostility, self contempt
- Female protest, feminine rejection
- Dependence on maternal figure
- Sexual role conflict
- Children also adults preoccupied with
past who are unable to emancipate
themselves from parents
- Evasion of body problems
- Exhibitionistic tendencies; secretive
 capable of more advanced drawing
h. Puppet - Compliance, feeling of domination by
others
i. Robot for male subject (male subject) - Depersonalization; feeling of being
controlled by outside forces
j. Stick figure - May express evasion or negativism
k. Type of person drawn - Ideal self-perception of others; self
portrait
l. Witches - Hostility over woman expressed
overtly
29. MULTIPLE CRITERIA
a. Bizarre features; confusion full-face - Schizophrenic
and profile; ear emphasized, emphasis
on joints; failure to recognized
grotesqueness of drawing; giraffe
neck; gross disproportion; internal
organ shown; omission of arms;
sexual organs indicated primitive
figures with tiny features; unessential
detail emphasized; very faint line
b. Breaks in line; erasure; omission - Conflict area
reinforcement, shading
c. Breast emphasis; buttock emphasis; - Homosexual tendencies
effeminate features; elaboration of
clothing details; high heels on male
figures (male subjects)
d. Breast emphasis; buttons, concave - Dependency
mouth midline emphasis; pocket
e. Breast emphasis; buttons; fingerless - Insecurity
hands; grape or petal fingers; midline
emphasis
f. Combination of firm heavy light lines; - assaultiveness
large arms and fingers; reinforced
eyes, arms, fingers and hairs; stance
with legs wide apart
g. Curved line on body of male, full lips, - Effeminacy
high heeled shoes, lashes, small
ankles, feet and wrist, tapering arms
and legs, all on male figure
h. Ear and eye emphasis; large grandiose -paranoid
figure; large head; spread or talon
fingers
i. Fingers without hands; foot emphasis; - Mad hover indices differentiating
heavy line prominent eye; stick assaultiveness from non-assaultive
fingers; wide stance subjects
j. Ground line; placating facial - insecurities
 expression, shaded shoes
k. Hands in pocket; heavy shading; large - Anti-social personality
figure
l. Powerful hands; squared shoulders; - Aggressiveness
weapons; well defined teeth
30. SIMPLIFICATION
a. Abstract or stick - Evasion, insecurity, self distrustful
b. Inadequate detailing - Depression; lack of energy;
withdrawal tendency