Psychobook: Games, Tests, Questionnaires, Histories - Julian Rothenstein (2016)
Chapter 8. Drawing Completion Tests
The House-Tree-Person Test
This is a version of a well-known projective test that was originally confined to the drawing of the human figure. It was based on the assumption that aspects of personality inaccessible in a verbal interview are revealed by the nonverbal activity of drawing. Analysis depends entirely on the subjective response of the clinician. Unlike other projective tests, such as the TAT, the Rorschach, and the Drawing Completion Tests, the H-T-P starts with a blank sheet, and provides no prompts beyond the one-word title of the potential drawing. In the clinical situation two types of analysis might be considered. The first is intrasubjective, i.e., it is confined to what the drawing might reveal about the subject doing the test, and will be augmented by verbal interview. The second is comparative: this will compare features of the drawings that recur across sets of drawings by many subjects, and consider the individual subject’s response in relation to codified types of response to the test.
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A somewhat fraught and complex response!
On a sheet of paper, make a drawing appropriate to the word in each rectangle.
Drawing Completion Test 1
Copy these diagrams onto a sheet of paper.
Draw a picture in each of the six divisions of the diagram opposite, incorporating the lines and shapes already there in five of them.
In the blank space numbered 2, draw anything you like.
These tests were devised by the psychiatrist Ehrig Wartegg in 1934 to reveal aspects of personality.
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Drawing Completion Tests 2 + 3
As for the previous test, draw a picture in each section opposite and in those on page 168, incorporating the lines and shapes already there.
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