The Family Drawing Test by Children with Psychosomatic Disease

We examined the clinical usefulness of the Family Drawing Test (FDT) with pictures titled "my family". More information can be obtained by adopting this drawing method according to the Japanese Association of Clinical Drawings. This method readily allows projection of feelings or desires concerning family members, and the family relationship subjectively recognized by the subject can be understood more extensively. However, if the flexibility in the contents drawn increases, the method of interpretation may become extremely complicated. Therefore, to effectively employ the FDT in a clinical setting, the type of picture must be clarified in various groups, and basic data for interpreting the drawing must be collected. We quantitatively investigated the features of the FDT drawn by children with psychosomatic disease