Graphology at Home - Lesson 21a - Draw Someone

Vast research was done among several psychoanalysts and psychologists into human figure drawings. The subject would be asked to draw a person. When the subject does draw, he is revealing how he sees himself. The following is a list of personality traits and how they are identified in a sketch. For the highest degree of accuracy, the subject should draw two or more sketches. Identical drawings are regarded as conclusive evidence.
A

Affection deprivation/dependence/possible identification with mother: button on clothing over chest of figure; pockets.

Aggression/ambition: more than five fingers.

Aggression/criticality/masculinity: angular shaped body.

Aggression/depersonalization fears: heavy thick lines in formation of body.

Aggression/poorly adjusted: few curves, many sharp edges in formation of body.

Aggressive content: daggers, guns, spears, etc.

Aggressive/energetic: strong arms, male subject.

Aggressive/expansive: large, same sex figure.

Aggressive tendency/anti-social personality: heavy shading, figure clothed with toes exposed, gun.

Aggressiveness: powerful hands, toes exposed, squared shoulders, weapons, well-defined teeth, and straight lines in formation of body.

Aggressive use of sexual characteristics/coquettishness: emphasis on female sex characteristics (female subject).

Ambition/drive: firm lines.

Ambition for accomplishment or acquisition/overt aggression: long arms.

Anti-social personality (psychopath): hands in pocket, heavy shading, and large figure.

Anxiety/aggression: shading.

Anxiety/depression: clouds.

Anxiety/emotional dependence/feeling of discomfort and restriction: small figures.

Anxiety/insecurity/repression/particularly with reference to area reinforced: reinforced lines.

Anxiety over difficulty with interpersonal relations or masturbatory guilt/ overt aggression: hands shaded.

Anxiety relative to sexual functions: shading in "private" area.

Anxiety/restlessness, possible neurotic tendency, conflict area: erasures.

Anxiety/uncertainty: short, sketchy strokes.

Apprehensive, neurotics, catatonics and chronic schizophrenics: faint lines.

Aspirations exceed opportunities/environment viewed as excessively constraining: figure too large for page.

Assaultiveness: hair, eyes and arms reinforced; large fingers; foot emphasized; large legs and arms of male figure; stands with legs far apart.

Assaultiveness/infantile aggression: fingers; no hands; arms and hands of male figure large.

Assertiveness: straight-lined strokes in formation of body.

Asthmatic tendency: long and thin lines; mouth omitted.

Auditory eroticism: hand at "private" area; well-defined teeth.

Auditory hallucinations/paranoid or schizoid/ear injury or hearing disability/sensitive to attitudes of others/passive homosexual conflict or tendency: ear emphasized or enlarged.

Awareness of physical impulses with effort to control them: excessively large neck.

Joel Engel is the author of "Handwriting Analysis Self-Taught" (Penguin Books)
http://careertest.ws and http://www.learngraphology.com
   By Joel Engel
Published: 9/12/2008
 
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