The HouseTreePerson Test Psychology（HouseTreePerson测试心理学）.ppt

The House-Tree-Person Test Carolyn R. Fallahi, Ph. D. Background HTP: Draw a house, tree, person, opposite sex person. Inner view of himself/herself the environment the things considered important Administration Pencil white paper. Patient asked to draw a good house (as good as possible), take as much time as needed, erase anything you need to. Then the pencil is taken away you can use crayons in anyway to shade in or draw. Projectives The Theory behind Projective techniques. Why is the HTP ambiguous? What do the drawings tell us? The inclusion or exclusion of the various details of the HTP s left wholly to the patient. Hammer (1955) looked at the drawings of normals versus sex offenders. What does the drawing of a house tell us? Associations concerning home-life Intrafamilial relationships Attitude toward their home situation (children) Relationships to parents and siblings Married adults The Tree the person Paul Schilder (1935): the tree the person touch the core of the personality = body image and self-concept. House Roof: fantasy area of their lives. Bats in the belfry Fantasy distorts one’s mental functioning is spoken of in terms of an impairment in the individual’s roof. House Overly large roof, overhanging dwarfing the rest of the house Schizophrenic patients or schizoid p.d. Roof Patients who do not draw a roof or when there is no height to the roof Reinforced by heavy line pressure Walls The strength and accuracy of the depicted walls of the house are directly related to the degree of ego-strength in the personality. Crumbling walls Reinforced boundary of walls Walls The outline of the walls of the house drawn with a faint and inadequate line quality Inadequate wall periphery Transparent walls Door The door is the detail of the house that allows direct contact with the environment. A door that is tiny in relation to the size of the windows and the house The door placed high above the house’s baseline and not made more approachable by steps