ARTHIST 2AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Frank Dumont, Illusory Correlation, Art Therapy
19 Oct 2018
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Chapter 31 what art can and cannot tell us. Projective drawing techniques such as, draw-a-person (dap), house-tree-person (htp) and kinetic family drawing (kfd) have no validity. She found some evidence for impact of colour but no enough for it to be conclusive. For htp there is no signs that show when trauma occurred or if it even occurred based on the knothole on the trunk of the tree. Projective drawings were taught very popularly in the first generations of ats. Kfd failed to find a relationship between closeness of figures and interpersonal closeness. Drawing tests should be used not as a formal test but as a way to increase understanding of the client based on client/clinician interaction related to the drawing. Projective drawings have remained popular with clinicians because of illusory correlation, the tendency to see two things as occurring together more often than they actually do.
