THE METHOD "HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING" IN PROJECTIVE FORM - THE MYTHS AND FACTS

The article deals with the quantitative part of the projective method "Human Figure Drawing", summarizing information from original sources, the authors, whose practices in the diagnosis of human figure drawings have had a great influence on ways of using this method. The aim was to determine whether interpretations that are generally recognized to be valid. The purpose is to determine whether the drawing figures are able to provide measurable and valid diagnostic data. Author verified load interpretive recommendations on a set of 234 persons who participated in the research. Hitherto interpretation working with the assumption that drawing to the left is related to introversion, or if the drawing is positioned above the connection with optimism, etc. Those classical diagnostic recommendation showed after comparing the results in this study with other methods as a wrong. On the contrary, it showed a new interpretive possibilities based on a statistical approach.