Content of 'Draw Me a Picture'

 

 

 

DRAW DRAW ME A PICTURE

The meaning of children's drawings and play from the perspective of analytical psychology

 

 

CONTENT

 

Acknowledgements

Preface to the English edition

 

CHAPTER 1 THE HISTORY OF DRAWING

1.1 The art of drawing

1.2 The first signs of life

1.3 The language of symbols

1.4 The meaning of a symbol

1.5 Symbols in art and religion

 

CHAPTER 2 THE PSYCHE AND THE ART OF DRAWING

 

2. The unconscious as a psychological

phenomenon

2.2 The meaning of the mother archetype

2.3 The child and mythology

2.4 Body and psyche

2.5 Healing art

 

CHAPTER 3 DRAWING AND PSYCHOLOGY

3.1 Developmental psychology and the

first years of childhood

3.2 The separation-individuation theory

3.3 Psychological research on children’s

drawings

3.4 Playing and therapy

3.5 Drawing and therapy

3.6 Jungian analytical therapy

3.7 Sandplay therapy

 

CHAPTER 4 CHILDREN’S FIRST DRAWINGS

4.1 Universal drawings

4.2 The drawing without borders

4.3 The egg-shaped drawing

4.4 The snake-like drawing

4.5 The spiral drawing

4.6 Children who do not draw

4.7 Ego-consciousness and the Self

4.8. The circle

4.9 Sunrays

4.10 Dots

4.11 Crosses

4.12 Balloons

4.13 Coloured areas

4.14 Smearing and messing about

4.15 Colouring in pages of a colouring book

 

 

CHAPTER 5 CHILDREN DRAW THEMSELVES

 

5.1 The significance of the tadpole

5.2 Tadpole

5.3 Tadpole with a belly

5.4 Head and rump

5.5 The pre-school child and magical thinking

5.6 Details in drawings of human figures

5.7 Learning to look at a drawing of a

human being

Case illustration 1

Case illustration 2

Case illustration 3

 

 

 

CHAPTER 6 DRAWINGS OF HOUSES AND TREES

 

6. 1. The symbolism of the house

1. The round house

2. The square house

3. Details of a house

4. The surroundings of a house

6.2 Learning to look at a drawing of a house

Case illustration 1

Case illustration 2

 

6.3 The symbolism of the tree

1. The trunk

2. Roots

3. Animals

4. Fruit

6.4 Learning to look at a drawing of a tree

Case illustration 1

Case illustration 2

Case illustration 3

 

 

CHAPTER 7 CHILDREN CAN DRAWEVERYTHING

 

7.1 The latency phase (7 to 10 years old)

7.2 X-ray drawings

7.3 Drawings with a story

7.4 Cartoons and trick drawings

7.5 Spontaneous drawings

7.6 The rainbow

7.7 Traumatic events

A child draws the war

7.8 The period of group awareness

7.9 Drawings by boys and drawings by girls

7.10 Drawings of boats

7.11 Aggression in children’s drawings

7.12 Depression in children’s drawings

 

CHAPTER 8 ADOLESCENTS DRAW THEIR OWN LINES

 

8.1 Puberty (10-15 years)

8.2 Rituals of transition

8.3 Contemporary rituals

8.4 Music and dance in puberty

8.5 Problems in puberty

8.6 Drawing in puberty

1. A new perspective

2. Fantastic and surrealistic

3. Cartoons

4. Black and white drawings

5. Drawing with feeling

8.7 Children’s drawings on the W.W.W.

8.8 Giving up drawing

Case illustration

 

CHAPTER 9 COLOURS, FORMS AND LAYOUT

 

9.1 The symbolic significance of colours

9.2 Psychological investigations into colour

9.3 Colours and alchemy

Case illustration

9.4 The symbolic meaning of the basic forms

1. The square

2. The triangle

Case illustration

9.5 The symbolic significance of the layout

9.6 Learning to look at the layouts of a drawing

 

CHAPTER 10 ANIMALS AND FANTASY FIGURES

 

10.1 The animalistic phase

10.2 The symbolic significance of animals

10.3 Stuffed animals as transitional objects

10.4 Why (stuffed) animals can help

10.5 The significance of fantasy figures

1. Elves

2. Fairies

3. Witches

4. Magicians

5. Dwarves

6. Clowns

 

CHAPTER 11 INTERPRETING DRAWINGS

11.1 Learning to look at children’s drawings

11.2 Drawings and signals

11.3 Learning to look systematically

1. Jung’s typology

2. The theory of phases and iconology

3. The appeal analysis

4. Investigating the symbolic significance

11.4 Let me draw you a picture

 

REFERENCES

 

 

INDEX

 

 

ISBN 978- 1419662010

9 781419 662010

 

 

 

 

 

Original Dutch title: “Kinderen geven tekens. De betekenis van kindertekeningen vanuit het perspectief van de analytische psychologie.’’ door. Uitgeverij Eburon te Delft, the Netherlands. First paperback printing, 2004;

second printing, 2004, third printing, 2005.

 

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