title: Drawings of depressed inpatients: intentional and unintentional expression of emotional states.
abstract: Twenty-six patients, aged 21 to 63, hospitalized for depression, and 26 control individuals were asked to make a "funny" and a "sad" drawing, which were scored on 22 variables describing their formal aspects and contents. Results show that drawings of individuals with depression differ from those of control participants on a wide range of variables, sometimes very significantly. Prediction of participants' groups based on eight variables obtained by discriminant analysis was correct in 98% of cases. Results support the usefulness of asking for the two kinds of drawings and suggest that depression is better detected through formal aspects of drawings than through their contents.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Clinique et de Psychopathologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Miljkovitch de Heredia
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miljkovitch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001155:Art Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged