The Validity of Human Form Drawings as a Measure of Personality Deviation

Seeing is remembering: Do deficits in closure affect visual memory recognition in schizophrenia?

“…The effect of symmetry on Pr was similar for both groups, suggesting that participants with schizophrenia processed symmetry as well as healthy controls. This result goes against previous indications suggesting that people with schizophrenia are less skilled than healthy controls at reproducing the symmetry of a drawing they had to copy (John, 1974, see also Dudley et al, 1973;Holzberg & Wexler, 1950), but it is consistent with other findings showing that people with schizophrenia exhibit the same pattern of response as comparison participants in tasks where performance varies as a function of symmetry (Knight et al, 2000). Unlike the fragmentation effect, the symmetry influences the Pr not by affecting memory but rather by inducing a strong response bias (see Crumbaugh, 1954, for a comparable conclusion).…”

Human figure drawings: Their utility in the clinical psychologist's armamentarium for personality assessment.

“…Swensen cited several studies which also cast considerable doubt on the validity of Machover's hypothesis concerning head size and paranoid schizophrenia (Fisher & Fisher, 1950;Holzberg & Wexler, 1950). In addition, Prater (1950) found no significant difference in head size of drawings by 49 male hemiplegics and 43 normal males.…”

Objective Draw-A-Person scales: An attempted cross-validation

“…Baugh-Carpenter (5) .07(-.01) -.%(-. 1 1 ) Fisher-Fisher (6) .15( -.02) Royal (7) highly intercorrelated, while the Royal and Fisher-Fisher scales were not significantly related to one another nor to any of the above five scales. These findings indicate that the former five scales in large part measure the same variable(s) and may be conceptualized as a DAP "g" factor.…”