Serial Projective Drawings in a Patient with a Malignant Brain Tumor

Abstract

Summary A series of human figure drawings is presented illustrating a patient's reaction to the knowledge and the effects of his malignant brain tumor. The drawings reveal a subjective state concealed clinically by the patient's effort and obscured in the Rorschach by stereotypy and coarctation. The skill of the graphic portrayals is a deviation from the growing body of material which demonstrates drawing dyspraxia with parietal lobe lesions. The hypothesis is offered that the diagonal placement of a figure is a projection of the loss of equilibrium rather than an impairment in drawing perspective as it has been considered heretofore. This case is part of a larger on-going study in the use of projective techniques with brain damaged patients.

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