BVMGT Angulation changes - Organic conditions in adults and children, mental retardation, inability to complete a task, hesitancy, self-doubt, and anxiety, difficulty in emotional control, feelings of insecurity and conflict. Increased Angulation - Suggests excessive emotional reactivity Closure difficulties - Emotionally disturbed, neurotic conditions in adults and children Interpersonal relationships are difficult, perhaps fear-inducing in children and adults. Anxiety, hesitancy, self-doubt and inability to complete a task,possible hypomania. Aggressive, acting-out behavior sometimes with psychopathy, mental deficiency and learning disturbances in children. Curvature modified, in general suggests - Neurotic conditions with poor emotional control, impulsiveness, possible delinquency in adolescents and possible mental deficiency. Dots modified - Dots changed to circles suggest regression in anyone over age 7, emotional instability, organicity, hysterical personality, in children, maybe normal under age 7, but also suggests poor academic work. Scattered, expansive arrangement - Aggressive, rebellious, hostile, acting-out tendencies in children and adults Manic conditions Expansiveness: psychopathy due to lack inhibitory trends and very weak relationships. Feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and impotency Inhibited, constricted personalities Mentally retarded children and adults active and overt anxiety Marked inconsistency in modified sizes of reproduction - Fluctuating ego controls Children with low frustration tolerance Over responsiveness to environment stimulation Ambivalent individuals DAPT Placement is relatively high on the page - adrift in space, lack of insight, unjustified optimism, and low level of energy and lack of secure footing. If drawings are not self-concept figures - the drawings may be a projection of the ideal self-image or projection of the parent figure. Starting with sketch or armature with measures of details - for bilateral control by a subject who fears body imbalance, suffers some degree (to control) of depersonalization or who may experience a compulsive drive to control the unruly spontaneous impulse toward exhibition. Lines traced and redrawn to correct proportion - comprehensiveness, orderliness. Stroke without determined direction - Vague, insecure individual who lacks opinion and points of view. Concave and orally receptive mouth - infantile dependent individual whose dependence is manifested also in undue emphasis on buttons, passive to receive nourishment No ears - Low intelligence Omission of pupil, drawing only the outline of the eyes - world is perceived as undifferentiated mass of stimulation with little discrimination of detail. - people with a tendency to shut out the world - emotionally immature and egocentric Messy and profuse - sexual disorderliness, precise and careful coiffure More than five fingers - low mental function, distortion may have pathological significance. No breasts - sexual conflict along affectional needs Marked by erasures, reinforced - uncertainties, drive or body development as an expression of masculinity as basic preoccupation Figure that is placed on the left side of the page - indicates a subject who is self-oriented. Large head - youngster whose emotional or social adjustments have dislocated because of severe reading or other subjects disability mentally defective HTP Large head - intellectuals need dependence on thinking as a source of satisfaction. shows emphasis on the intellect or superior mind, had grandeur delusions Windows against walls of house so that side if the house serves as window side - implies feelings of insecurity Sketch or sketchy reinforced line - often times a function of insecurity. Windows with curtain or shades - suggest evasive attitudes and withdrawal tendencies. Refusal to complete whole (person’s hair) - negativism Tiny shoulder on person - inadequacy and inferiority feelings Horizontal view of the house - frozen at the present, vulnerable to the environmental pressures Small door - has needs Door opened, nothing inside seen - has a need to be seen by others Hair not filled in - shows ambivalence over sexuality WIndows with curtains, barred or shuttered - There is evidence of guardedness and social withdrawal which corresponds with the degree to which the windows are covered Absence of Pathway/Walkway - reveal difficulty in interpersonal relationships with a tendency to be relatively unavailable to others Tree on the left side of the paper - There is often an emotional imbalance, characteristic of a person who has grown up under the influence of a dominant mother - Resentment of the mother’s influence Dimly Drawn Features - show timidity and self-consciousness in interpersonal relationship Dot eyes - desires to see as little as possible. Single line mouth - Indicates tension and possible hypercritical or aggressive tendencies Short neck - Suggests tendencies to ne gruff, stubborn and bullheaded Arms stiff and close to the body - rigid, compulsive and inhibited persons Hands bague of sketchy - suggests lack of confidence or productivity Larger house - closer to the mother
