Phenotypes of aggressive psychiatric patients' and delinquents' projective drawings

Abstract

Aggressive psychiatric patients (n = 266) on the base of their explicitly aggressive behavior in the community and delinquents (n = 81) who were sent to prison because of murdering one or more victims were administered the House–Tree–Person Test (Buck, 1948), followed by an animal and a free drawing. With hierarchical cluster analysis configurations of drawings were identified. Some of the items in clusters and configurations were traditional indicators, other items were rarely found in the literature but they are often observable in clinical settings. Instead of a confused mixture of items, the configurations ordered the variables in phenotypic groups that are prone to occur together. The article describes the observed phenotypes in configurations.

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