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KMID : 0376719830070060171
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1983 Volume.7 No. 6 p.171 ~ p.184
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The Characteristic Signs of Human Figure Drawings of The Schizophrenic Patients
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Abstract
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192 free drawings with human figures of 71 admitted mental patients of Seoul National University Hospital from March 1979 to August 1982 were examined to elucidate the characteristic ways of expression in human figure drawings of schizophrenic patients and to understand the symbolical meaning of their drawings.
Classical deformation which was pointed out as characteristic signs of schizophrenic´s drawings by Navratil and Rennert such as dislocation, mutilation, emphasis of contour and disproportion were not prominent in the drawings of schizophrenic patients. No examples of "transparency" and childish primitive ways of form reduction were found. Most drawings were "normal" graphic product which revealed patients´ feeling toward therapists, family members or friends and also their own view of their present psychic situation.
Some drawings, however, arising from the inner most mythical source showed agglutination of different images in archaic symbolical wars and also the tendencies toward geometrical reconstructions of human figures. Two case materials were reviewed in which the inner drive of creativity was manifested through unique figurative work.
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