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- 1. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 1 Interpretations for Human Figure Draw Hair Drawing Expression D Hair given much attention • Narcissism • Homosexual trend • Infantile or repressed sex drives. C Sx Sx Hair emphasis (shaded) • Sensuality or sensual needs • Virility symbol Sx Sx Hair on female • Regression D Hair emphasis with heavy shading • Anxiety over sexual needs possibly Sx Balding male figures, hair white on male figures • Feeling of masculine insufficiency and lack of virility Sx Hair parted in middle, head split • Feminine identification dealt with by narcissism and obsessive-compulsive mechanisms Sx Sparse, unpressured hair • Inadequate virility Sx Hair mussed • Sexual acting out (sexual immorality) Sx Hair reinforced • Assaultiveness Sx Head Head clearly indicated • Feeling of anxiety or of inferiority relative to body functions Sy Appendages attached to head • Immaturity + primitive characters structure • Regression • Mental retardation + (denial or repression of physical drives-children as subjects) C D I Large head • Paranoid + concern about sufficiency of intellect (brain-damaged, retarded) + (emphasis on fantasy ; children as subjects) • Fantasy preoccupied + intellectual aspirations (with possible grandiosity) + over-ideational subject + pride over intellect • Introspection P Sy T Head enlarged on opposite sex • Opposite sex viewed as smarter or as possessing greater social authority Ob Head drawn last • Thought disorder possibly • Conflict over interpersonal relations P Ob Hat plus buttons, hat but no clothes, hat on nude figure • Regression D Hat crease • Fantasy relative to female genitalia Sx Head malformed • Organicity Or Hat transparent • Primitive sexual behavior Sx Profile head • Poor judgment Sy Profile head, full face body • Social anxiety with need for contact Sy Head dim • Self-consciousness Sy Features dim with emphasis on head contour • Timidity Sy Face turned toward page so that back • Withdrawal Sy
- 2. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 2 of head shows Face Facial expression self-preoccupied • Prevailing attitude and mood • Schizoid At C Confusion of full face and profile • Schizophrenia • Mental retardation • Primitive cultural origin P I Sy Beard, moustache, other facial hair (male subject) • Doubts about activity with compensatory virility striving + sexual inadequacy possibly Sx Entreating facial expression • Conception of self as dependent, helpless, insignificant Sy Facial scars on same-sex figure • Impaired self-esteem + possible expectation of aggression from environment + possible symbolization of psychic trauma Sy Facial expression placating • Insecurity Sy Face dim • Self-consciousness + shyness Sy Full face view • Social dependency + social accessibility • Social communication Sy T Eye Eye a circle (no pupil) • Egocentricity + immaturity • Egocentric hysteric • Regression C N D Eye large, no pupil • Voyeuristic tendency with guilt Sx Eye closed • Schizoid C Eye small • Self-absorption • Voyeuristic tendency C Sx Eyes large • Homosexual trend Sx Eye a dot with pressure, unenclosed eye emphasized, large, staring. • Paranoid • Ideas of reference P Sy Eye emphasized • Aggression externalized or overt Sy Eye prominent • Assaultiveness + mach-over indices differentiating assaultive from nonassualtive subjects Sy Eye reinforced • Assaultiveness Sy Eye Brow Trim eye brow • Disdain • Refinement At T Eye brow brushy • Uninhibitedness T Eye Lashes Lashes long • Coquettishness + seductiveness + self-display Sx
- 3. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 3 Lashes large; Lashes on male • Homosexual trend Sx Nose Nose broad, flared, hooked • Contemptuous attitudes + tendency to think in terms of derisive social stereotypes At Nose large. • Involutional patients • Sexual impotency + felt inadequate male role in adolescents with striving for adequate male role P Sx Nose strong • Masculine assertion or need for it Sx Sy Nose cut off • Castration fears and wishes Sy Nose shaded • Castration which may be projected on opposite sex Sy Nostrils • Primitive aggression Sy Mouth Mouth emphasized • Alcoholism possibly • Possible regression Ad D Concave mouth • Dependency + passive dependent (oral dependent) C Mouth heavy line, single-line mouth • Passive-aggressive (oral aggressive) C Mouth heavy line • Sadism Sy Mouth markedly full, open or oval • Oral-eroticism C Mouth open • Orality C Mouth omitted • Asthmatic So Mouth omitted on female figure • Scolding maternal figure possibly Ob Mouth clownlike • Forced amiability + inappropriate effect Sy Teeth Teeth shown • Passive-aggressive (oral aggressive) • simple schizophrenic + sadism C P Teeth well defined • Aggressive tendencies Sy Lips Lips full on male • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Lips on male figure unusually emphasized or large and rounded • Homosexual trend Sx Straw / toothpick between lips • Primitive oral-eroticism Sx Cigarette or pipe between lips • Sophisticated oral-eroticism Sx Chin Chin emphasize • Compensation for inadequacy + indecision + fear of responsibility Sy Chin emphasized on opposite sex • Dependency on opposite sex + opposite sex Ob
- 4. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 4 viewed as stronger Chin enlarged • Aggressive tendencies Sy Chin exaggerated • Compensation for felt guilt + indecision Sy Ear Ear emphasized or enlarged • Schizoid • Auditory hallucinations + paranoid + schizophrenia • Passive homosexual conflict or tendency • Ear injury or hearing disability + ideas of reference + sensitivity to attitudes of others + sensitivity to criticisim C P Sx Sy Neck Neck omission • Immaturity • Lack of impulse control • Regression C Sy D Neck long • Schizoid • Hysterical swallowing inhibition • Problems with control of anger or primitive drives C So Sy Neck excessively large • Awareness of physical impulses with effort to control them Sy Neck short, thick • Self-indulgence • Uninhibited impulse expression C T Narrow neck • Depression N Neck like giraffe • Schizophrenia P Neck thin • Repression D V-neckline on female, male subject • Breast fixation + voyeuristic tendency Sx Neck emphasis (children as subjects) • Need for defensive intellectual control Sy Shoulders Shoulders massive on male • Compensation for felt inadequacy (male subject) D Shoulders exaggerated or other masculine details • Feeling of masculine insufficiency and lack of virility Sx Shoulders wide on female • Sexual conflict Sx Shoulders squared • Aggressive tendencies Sy Shoulders drooping • Dejection • Guilt + lack of drive energy and vitality D Sy Broad shoulders • Physical power drive T Breasts Breasts small • Maternal figure un-nurturing Ob Breast area emphasized, buckle, • Dependency C
- 5. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 5 buttons on clothing over breast of figure • Affectional deprivation + identification with mother possibly Ob Breast emphasis male subject • Passive dependent (oral dependent) C Breast emphasis, female subject • Feminine identification with dominant mother Sx Breast emphasis, female figure, male subject • Maternal dependency and domination Ob Breast area emphasized • Homosexual trend + sexual immaturity Emotional Immaturity + insecurity Sx Sy Buttons • Immaturity C Body Body emphasis (under-clothed) • Egocentricity + shizoid C Body of lower area of female visible through transparent skirt • Involutional sex problems (male subject) Sx Body omitted (no trunk) • Immaturity + primitive characters structure • Regression • Mental retardation +(denial or repression of physical drives-children as subjects) C D Sy Dim line body or no body • Feeling of anxiety or of inferiority relative to body functions I Body distortions • Psychotic tendency P Full bodies with shaded or thin legs. • Feeling of decline associated with advancing age So Hat clearly indicated / dim line body or no body • Compensatory fantasy D Trunk incomplete • Regression D Trunk rounded • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Trunk rounded (male subject) • Homosexual trend Sx Trunk not closed at bottom • Sexual preoccupation Sx Emphasis on circles in depicting body • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Curved lines on body of male • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Angular body ; trunk angular or square • Masculine tendencies or masculinity Sx Angular body • Aggressive tendencies + criticality Sy Elongated anatomical areas • Phallic symbol Sy Emphasis on circles in depicting body • Submissiveness Sx Arms Arms long • Ambition for accomplishment or acquisition T Arms long, weak, over extended • Dependency + asthmatic • Desire for affection • Nurturance needs C Ob So Arms long and powerful • Need for autonomy T Large arms • Assaultiveness + guilt Sy Arms omitted • Depression • Schizophrenia • Withdrawal N P Sy
- 6. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 6 Armless figure of male (male subject) • Strong sexual drive associated with guilt + wish to be castrated Sx Arms heavy, shaded on opposite sex • Opposite sex viewed as punishing Ob Arms omitted or short arms on opposite sex • Rejection by maternal or paternal figure of opposite sex Ob Arms long and hands prominent, female figure • Wish for protective maternal figure (male subject) Ob Arms extended from body and over- long • Aggression externalized or overt Sy Arms tapering • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Arm distortion or reinforcement (left side, male figure, male subject) • Sexual role conflict or confusion Sx Arms out with fists clenched • Aggressive tendencies Sy Arms of male figure large • Assaultiveness Sy Arms reinforced • Assaultiveness Sy Arms dangling by sides • Conception of self as dependent + helpless + insignificant Sy Arms pressed by sides • Difficulty in social contact + fear of aggressive impulses + passivity as defense against aggressive impulses Sy Arms close to body • Tension Sy Ankle Skirt ankle length on female (male subject) • Maternal figure Ob Ankle small • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Wrist Wrist small • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Hands Hands in pockets • Antisocial personality (psychopath) C Hands behind back or in pockets • Evasion + guilt + lack of confidence Sy Hands hidden • Difficulty with interpersonal relations • Masturbatory guilt Ob Sx Hands omitted, dim • Inadequacy + schizoid C Hands dim • Lack of confidence in productivity of social contact Sy Hands shaded • Anxiety over interpersonal relations • Masturbatory guilt • Guilt over aggression Ob Sx Sy Hands of female figure in pelvic area (male subject) • Female regarded as sexually rejecting Ob Hands omitted on female figure • Maternal figure regarded as rejecting, unloving, un-supportive Ob
- 7. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 7 Hand at genital area • Autoeroticism Sx Hands extended behind back in anal area • Homoerotic conflicts Sx Hands emphasized • Aggression externalized or overt Sy Hands powerful • Aggressive tendencies Sy Hands large • Compensation for felt guilt and weakness Sy Finger-less hands • Insecurity Sy Mitten hands • Repressed aggression Sy Fists clenched or closed • Repressed aggression • Rebellion Sy T Fingers Grape fingers • Immaturity C Fingers, fingernails carefully depicted • Compulsive body image problem, as in early schizophrenia P Claw fingers, Spear fingers, talon fingers • Paranoid P Claw fingers • Aggression externalized or overt Sy Short fingers • Anxiety Sy Long fingers • Regression D Large fingers • Assaultiveness Sy Long fingers, spear fingers • Aggression externalized or overt Sy Stick fingers • Assaultiveness + infantile aggression + Mach- over indices differentiating assaultive from nonassualtive subjects Sy Finger omitted or over-extended • Masturbatory guilt Sx More than five fingers • Aggressive tendencies • Ambition. Sy T Less than five fingers • Helplessness Sy Fingers, no hands • Assaultiveness + infantile aggression Sy Fingers reinforced • Assaultiveness Sy Shaded fingers • Guilt (as masturbation or theft) Sy Grape fingers; petal fingers • Infantile traits + insecurity Sy Scissors fingers • Subject is castrating or views maternal or parental figures as castrating Sy Fingers without hands • Mach-over indices differentiating assaultive from nonassualtive subjects Sy Fingers with carefully indicated joints and nails • Obsessive control of aggression Sy Fingers articulated carefully and cut off by line • Repressed aggression + withdrawal Sy Knuckle Knuckle emphasis • Schizoid • Schizophrenia • Maternal dependency C P Ob
- 8. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 8 • Psychosexual immaturity Sx Waist Waist narrow (male subject) • Homosexual trend Sx Back Back of male figure to observer, male subject • Desire to be a woman + feminine identification (men) Sx Buttock Buttock emphasis; buttocks on male figure unusually emphasized or large and rounded • Homosexual trend Sx Buttocks emphasized • Sexual conflict Sx Hip Hip emphasis on male figure (male subject) • Homosexual trend Sx Legs Shaded legs • Homosexual anxiety Sx Legs tapering • Feminine tendency (effeminacy) Sx Legs show through; pants transparent • Homosexual anxiety Sx Leg distortion or reinforcement (left side, male figure, male subject) • Sexual role conflict or confusion Sx Legs masculine on female figure • Sexual role conflict or confusion Sx Legs of male figure large • Assaultiveness Sy Legs reinforced • Assaultiveness Sy Legs omitted • Discouragement + withdrawal Sy Profile legs • Poor judgment Sy Legs long • Need for autonomy T Feet Feet omitted or dim • Schizoid • Discouragement C Sy Feet omitted • Withdrawal Sy Feet and legs drawn first • Depression • Discouragement N N Foot of male emphasized • Involutional impotency Sx Phallic foot • Sexual inadequacy and preoccupation Sx Foot emphasized • Assaultiveness • Mach-over indices differentiating assaultive from nonassualtive subjects Sy Sy
- 9. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 9 Feet small (male subject) • Insecurity Sy Feet on base of page • Need for stability because of disturbance produced by a conflict Sy Shoes shaded • Insecurity Sy Heel High heel on male (male subject) • Homosexual trend Sx Organs Organs shown • Manic tendency • Somatic delusions P P Internal organs shown (internal anatomy), sex organ shown • Schizophrenia • Somatic delusions • Professional artists • Analysands P So Sx Si Shading in sexual areas • Anxiety relative to sexual function Sx Female sex characteristics under- emphasized, female subject • Constricted erotic response (women) Sx Sexual anatomy area distorted or omitted • Sexual conflict Sx Joints Joints emphasis • Schizoid • Schizophrenia • Maternal dependency • Psychosexual immaturity C P Ob Sx Joints carefully depicted • Compulsive body image problem, as in early schizophrenia P Clothing Clothing foppish (overclothed) • Antisocial personality (psychopath) • Need for social approval and dominance C St Clothing carefully rendered, over- clothed • Egocentricity C Clothing carefully rendered • Immaturity • Over-concern for material criteria for social status C St Clothing detail elaboration • Homosexual trend Sx Clothing transparent (body visible) • Voyeuristic tendency Sx Clothing elaboration, grooming • Emphasis on possession and social prestige St Clothes ill-fitting • Unsatisfying social status St Uniformed cowboy or soldier (male figure of male subject) • Need for greater status and recognition than subject feels he possesses St
- 10. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 10 Body of lower area of female visible through transparent skirt (male subject) • Sexual fantasies • Sexual preoccupation Sx Sx Pockets • Dependency C Handkerchief of coat pocket emphasized • Sexual inadequacy Sx Buttons • Inadequacy • Maternal dependency • Insecurity C Ob Sy Buttons in midline • Somatic preoccupation • Maternal dependency So Ob Pocket • Maternal dependency Ob Tie emphasized • Homosexual trend Sx Tie flying or swept out • Overt sexual aggression Sx Trouser fly • Masturbatory preoccupation Sx Figure clothed with toes exposed • Aggressive tendencies Sy Collar tight • Problem with control of anger or primitive drive Sy Pressures Pressure • Aggressive tendencies • Sadism Sy Sy Excessive and heavy pressure • Antisocial personality (psychopath) • Paranoid • Epileptics • Organicity • Extreme tension • Assertiveness • Energy C P P Or Sy Sy T Fluctuating pressure • Impulsivity • Cyclothymie • Unstableness C C Sy Light pressure • Repression • Feeling or insignificance or lack of worth • Restraint D Sy T Pressure variations • Adaptability • Flexibility • Moodinness T T T Lines Rhythmic stroking • Responsiveness • Uninhibitedness T T Energetic, unhesitant stroke • Perseverance • Security T T Constricted stroking • Tension • Withdrawal Sy Sy Length of stroke movement decreases • Excitable subjects Sy Circular strokes • Dependency Sy
- 11. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 11 • Lack of assertion Sy Right to left strokes • Introversion (self-oriented) T Left to right strokes • Need for help or support • Extroversion (environment oriented) Sy Sy Stroking in (toward the body) • Introversion (self-oriented) T Circular strokes; trunk rounded • Feminine tendency Sx Circular strokes • Emotionality T Short strokes • Impulsivity C Short sketchy strokes / sketchy lines • Anxiety • Timidity • Uncertainty Sy Sy Sy Long strokes(children as subjects) • Controlled behavior T Strokes away from subject • Aggressive tendencies • Extroversion (environment oriented) Sy Sy Rounded curves • Sexual inadequacy Sx Horizontal stroke; rounded lines • Femininity Sx Horizontal stroke • Emphasis on fantasy • Weakness Sy Sy Vertical stroke • Hyperactivity • Assertiveness • Determinedness Sy T T indeterminate vacillating stroke • Insecurity • Lack of perseverence Sy Sy Straight line strokes (children as subjects) • Assertiveness T Midline emphasis (stressed midline) • Dependency • Schizoid • Conversion or somatic preoccupation • Maternal dependency • Insecurity C C D Ob Sy Body line reinforced, varied pressure • Explosive personality (emotional instability) C Emphasis on curves in depicting body • Narcissism C Very faint line • Inadequacy • Apprehensive neurotics (apprehension with neurosis) • Depression • Catatonics • Chronic schizophrenia • Withdrawn schizophrenic C N N P P P Body line heavy • Apprehensive neurotics (apprehension with neurosis) • Depersonalization fears N Sy Fading line • Hysteric tendency N Heavy thick lines • Depersonalization fears • Aggressive tendencies P Sy Disconnected lines • Psychotic tendency • Insecurity P Sy Broken lines • Anxiety • Conflict area Sy Sy
- 12. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 12 Reinforced lines • Anxiety • Conflict area • Insecurity Sy Sy Sy Pressured lines • Assertiveness T Straight lines • Aggressive tendencies Sy Light lines, light pressure • Low energy So Heavy lines • Hostility • Mach-over indices differentiating assaultive from nonassualtive subjects D Sy Jagged lines • Assaultiveness Sy Fluctuating line • Tension Sy Thin elongated line • Tension Sy Dim line • Timidity Sy Firm lines • Ambition • Drive T T Unbroken reinforced lines outlining figure • Isolation D Uninterrupted straight lines • Decisiveness T Measurement lines or stick frame • Perfectionism Sy Combination of firm, heavy and light lines • Assaultiveness Sy Few curves, many sharp edges • Aggressive tendencies • Poor adjustment Sy Sy Uneven line pressure • Anxiety • Insecurity Sy Sy Erasures • Anxiety • Conflict area • Indecisiveness Sy Sy Sy Excessive erasure • Dissatisfaction with self • Conflict area Sy Sy Curvilinear line interrupted • Indecisiveness Sy Ground line • Insecurity • Need for help or support Sy Sy Extras Aggressive content, as daggers, guns, spears • Delinquent tendency possibility C Doodling of subjects name • Egotism • Narcissism C C Clouds • Depression • Anxiety N Sy Buttons inconspicuous (as on cuffs), shoelaces, wrinkles, other unnecessary details • Obsessive compulsive N Bizarre details, unessential details • Schizophrenia P Detailing, over-symmetrical drawings, re-working, with addition to excessive detail • Compulsivity D
- 13. HFD / Interpretations Re-arranged by Dr. W. H. Sukoon Page 13 Minute detailing • Pedantry T Inadequate detailing • Lack of drive, energy or vitality Sy Sy Sun added to HFD scene • Need for affection • Nurturing warmth Ob Ob Fireplace (with fire in it) before figure • Need for emotional security and warmth Ob Earrings; full-face figure; measurement lines or stick frame for body; peanut man; stick figure in subject capable of more advanced drawing • Exhibitionism or exhibitionistic tendency Sx Stick figure in subject capable of more advanced drawing • Secretiveness Sy Earrings • Sexual preoccupation Sx Cane • Impotency • Involutional resistance to sexual drive Sx Sx Adam’s apple ; a cane ; cigarette ; hair area ; pipe ; tie • Masculine or virility striving Sx Adam’s apple (on opposite sex, that sex regarded as not virile) • Sexual role conflict or confusion Sx Small tie ; tie • Sexual inadequacy Sx Tie flying or swept out • Sexual preoccupation Sx Yo-yo • Masturbatory fixation Sx Several pockets (male figure, male subject) • Passive homosexual tendency Sx Cigarette • Sexual preoccupation Sx Gun • Sexual preoccupation • Aggressive tendencies • Hostility Sx Sy Sy Knife • Aggressive tendencies • Hostility Sy Sy Weapons • Aggressive tendencies Sy Strong wind in scene of H.F.D. • Felt rejection to strong environmental pressure or stress with fear of psychoses Sy Mask • Secretiveness T