Young Children And Their Drawings (Paperback)

Contents:
Part I: The Usual and Normative. Procedure. Developmental Sequences. Earliest Drawings: The Kinesthetic Stage. Transition from Kinesthetic to Representational Drawing. Representation and Reproduction. The Human Figure Evolves: Primacy of the Head. The Trunk Appears; The Mixed Profile; The Profile Fluctuations; Drawing What is Known to Exist. Past and Present. What is "Wrong" in Children's Drawings. Drawing Before Writing. Development of Graphic Expression in Mankind and the Individual. Male and Female: Awareness of Sex. Part II: The Unusual and Deviant. Drawings as Diagnostic Aids: Drawing the Family. Omission and Over-Emphasis. The Mentally Subnormal. Cerebral Palsy. Syndromes of Cerebral Dysfunction. Communication Disorders: Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss; Central Language Disorders; As Manifestations of Personality Disorders. Use of Children's Drawings in the Study of Personality. Personality Disorders.