Table 3.

Examples of Child Narratives found in the clinically-referred group include

“It’s a walking knife--It sticked her. It cut her hair off. It cut her arm off.”

The doll puts the knife between his legs to make a tail. The subject says that the table walks, and the pot and the knife run away.

The child character says that an invisible child cut the pot. Later, the invisible child cuts the floor; then the characters fall in the hole.

“The knife and pan are fighting. They are floating.”

Without explanation by the child narrator, the child doll says, “I have a pot on my foot.” Mother doll says, “I have a pot foot and a knife foot.”

“The band-aids were off (the child doll) and mom, and they flew over the trash can.”

The child doll throws the knife into his room where it gets lost under his bed. Then, without explanation, the knife cuts the foot of the mother doll who awakes in pain with the knife between her toes.

“The mom flies off with the pot (on her head).”