TABLE 5.

Characteristics and implications of effective predictive drawing for mental disorders.

Type	Drawing characteristics	Indicates meaning
Item absence	Excessive separation among items, omitted house, tree or person, no door, no window, loss of facial features, poker face, complete or partial loss of limbs, and incomplete person	Loss of self-awareness and psychological defenses
Bizarre or distortion	Leaning house, bizarre house, truncated tree, dead tree, bizarre tree, sharp branch, flattened crown, bizarre person, inappropriate body proportions, and fist	Psychological conflict and sense of unreality
Excessive details	Shaded or blackened drawing, shadow, decorated roof, smoking chimney, shaded or blackened wall, roots, shaded or blackened person, and negative expression	Nervousness, sensitivity, and irritability
Small or simplified	No additional decoration, simplified drawing, no motion, no theme, small drawing size, weak or intermittent lines, emphasis on straight lines, scribbled drawing, very small house, two-dimensional house, very small tree, very small person, and single line limbs	Low mental motivation, avoidance and retreat