DIBUJO DE LA FAMILIA Corman y Font

2010

YO. Order of characters and DF questions (Corman)

character order

1. ____________/____________ 2. ____________/____________ 3. ___________/_____________ 4. ____________/____________

5. ____________/____________ 6. ____________/____________ 7. ___________/_____________ 8. ____________/____________

Questions

1. Where are they?

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2. What are they doing there?
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3. Who is the best of all in this family? ______________________________________________________________
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4. Who is the least good of all in this family? ___________________________________________________________
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5. Which is the happiest? __________________________________________________________________________________
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6. Which one is the least happy?
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7. Who do you prefer in this family? ______________________________________________________________________
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8. Assuming you were part of this family, who would you be? ________________________________________________
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Others:
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II. INTERPRETATION of the DF EMOTIONAL INDICATORS (Louis Corman)

GRAPHIC PLAN Pts.

It is related to everything related to the line. How is the strength or weakness of the line, the amplitude, the rhythm and the sector of the page on which it is
drawn.
strong stroke Powerful impulses, audacity, violence.
a) Strength of the
Delicacy of feelings, shyness, inhibition of instincts, inability to assert
stroke. weak stroke
oneself or feeling of failure.
b) Amplitude Broad stroke. Vital expansion and easy extraversion of tendencies
Inhibition of vital expansion and a strong tendency to withdraw into
short strokes
oneself.
Repeat the strokes / Loss of a part of spontaneity and lives attached to the rules. Obsessive
c) Rhythm
symmetrical character traits.
Primordial instincts for preserving life. It can be associated with
Lower sector
depression and apathy.
Upper sector Imaginative expansion, dreamers and idealists.
d) Sector of the
It can represent the past and can be chosen by subjects with regressive
page. Left sector
tendencies.
Right sector It can correspond to goals in relation to the future
White sector Bans

STRUCTURAL PLAN
The formal plane considers the structure of the figures, as well as their interactions and the degree of mobility in which they act.

a) Sensory type Curve lines Spontaneous and sensitive to the environment.

They express dynamism of life.
Straight lines and angles. More inhibited and guided by the rules.
b) Rational type Drawings in a stereotypical and rhythmic manner,
little movement and isolated characters.

PLAN OF CONTENT OR CLINICAL INTERPRETATION

The drawing must be compared with the real family
Which character is valued more? Who?
(It is the one the child pays the most attention to)
Who? It could be the generator of serious
problems adapting to family life).
Or just the desire to have more
attention from the family unit with
Which is devalued or suppressed? good adaptation.
(This may be due to a major rivalry .) It is drawn smaller

It is placed very far from the others

You don't give it a name when

everyone has
Draw animals instead of people (they can symbolize impulsive Domestic animal Passive tendencies
tendencies) Wild animal Aggressive tendencies

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III. INTERPRETATION of the DF EMOTIONAL INDICATORS (Josep M. Lluis Font)

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRAWINGS Pts.

The size of the drawing, placement, erasures and distance between the characters are evaluated.
Individuals who respond aggressively and expansively to environmental pressures. They
Big
1. Size frequently occur in the upper classes.
Little Feelings of insecurity and insecurity.
Above Represents the world of fantasies, ideas and spiritual tendencies
2. Location Below It represents the concrete and the solid.
Center It represents the area of affections. Normal.
3. Shading Intense Symbol of anxiety.
4. Erasures Indicators of anxiety and emotional conflicts.
5. Distance between
Emotional distance between them. Less communication.
characters

Which character is drawn first or last, if one or an element is deleted.
1. Character drawn first
2. Other indications of valuation
3. Character drawn last
4. Suppression of some element of the
family
5. Other signs of devaluation
6. Omission of hands
7. Omission of facial features
VALORIZATION
The character you consider most important, whom you admire, envy or fear. He
identifies with him.
The increase in size of any of the elements or characters, and the representation of a
greater amount of details, as well as the tendency to perfect it.
Devaluation, not being a product of the family hierarchy. If it is the same child, it
may indicate self-devaluation, as long as it is not the only child or the youngest.
It can be a defense to deny a reality that produces anxiety or intrapsychic conflict.
Possible devaluation and indicates major relationship problems
Smaller, more imperfect figure, with fewer details or distancing the devalued member
from the other members of the family group.
Difficulties in environmental contact or feelings of guilt. Difficulties in contact with
the environment.
Devaluation of family members, disturbances in interpersonal relationships. In small
drawings it reflects a disturbance in interpersonal relationships linked to the subjects'
inhibition and a poor self-image.

HIERARCHICAL COMPONENTS
It refers to the place assigned to the different structural subsystems in the family.
1.Person between The subject perceives strong emotional ties from one of the parents to one of the siblings, projects his
parental block vision of a certain favoritism or a situation of rivalry between the siblings for the parents' affection. The
interspersed character can be considered privileged or the expression of a desire for overprotection or
dependence.
2. Hierarchy of It can be considered as the existence of important problems between the brothers, especially when there
brothers. are other indicators of conflict such as deletions, shadowing size, deletion of some elements or some
other similar ones.
3. Family hierarchy The normal order would be to draw the father first, then the mother, and then the siblings in order from
oldest to youngest. The order is altered when appreciation or devaluation of family members appears.

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