[The graphic test "the enchanted family" and its application in educational counselling and paediatric clinics (author's transl)].
Projectional tests using pictures, drawings, story-telling and puppets induce children to exhibit their conflicts within the family. Among such drawing tests, "The Enchanted Family" asks the child to put the members of a family under the spell of a magician, without any limits being set on the child's imagination in the choice of objects to be drawn. The psychological content is then underlined by the child telling a story about the casting of the spell. Four thousand children and juveniles, of which 1562 had behavioural disturbances or were neurotically or psychosomatically ill, were examined with this test and 1225 of these were statistically evaluated for the formal aspects of their drawings. A group of healthy school children were evaluated as controls. In addition to the formal results, the depth-psychological results of the tests offered valuable pointers to the individual conflict situations of the test subjects, in particular in relation to the relationships within the family, the projections and identifications in "key situations" of the neurotic family behaviour patterns. This was demonstrated in individual case studies. The symbolism in the choice of animals receives specific interpretation. The use of this test in educational advisory practice and psychotherapy is recommended.
D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D003376:Counseling; D004775:Enuresis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis
Der Zeichentest "Die verzauberte Familie", seine Anwendung in Erziehungsberatungsstelle und Kinderklinik