Art as Language: Access to Emotions and Cognitive Skills through Drawings

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by  Silver, Rawley A

ART AS
LANGUAGE
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ART AS
LANGUAGE
Access to Thoughts and
Feelings through
Stimulus Drawings
Rawley Silver, Ed.D.
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ART AS LANGUAGE: Access to Thoughts and Feelings through Stimulus Drawings
Copyright© 2001 Rawley Silver. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of
America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of
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Cover design by Joe Dieter
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silver, Rawley A.
Art as language : access to thoughts and feelings through stimulus drawings I
Rawley Silver.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58391-051-4 (alk. paper)
I. Children's drawings-Psychological aspects. 2. Children's art-Psychological
aspects. 3. Art-Psychology. 4. Drawing, Psychology of. 5. Art therapy for children.
6. Art therapy. I. Title.
BF723.D7 S57 2000
155.4-dc21 00-046745
ISBN 1-58391-051-4
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For Ed, Paul, and Jon
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CONTENTS
List of Figures XI
Acknowledgments XV
Foreword by Cathy A. Malchiodi XVII
PART I
STIMULUS DRAWING ASSESSMENTS
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Introduction 3
Nonverbal Thinking 4
The Emotional Content of Drawings 5
The Cognitive Content of Drawings 7
Relationships Between Emotion and Cognition 13
Organization 14
IJ
Stimulus Drawing Assessments 16
How the Assessments Evolved 17
Stimulus Drawings and Techniques 19
The Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion 24
Draw-A-Story: Screening for Depression and
Age or Gender Differences 33
Correlations Among the Stimulus Drawing Assessments 39
PART II
QUALITATIVE STUDIES
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Emotionally Disturbed, Hospitalized, and
Sexually Abused Individuals 45
Identifying Troubled Children and Adolescents in Public
Schools 45
Using the Assessments in Special Schools and Hospitals 53
VII
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Joey, a Child with learning Disabilities 58
Hearing-Impaired Children and Adolescents 65
Burt 65
Vi 70
Lisa 74
Charlie 75
Adults and Adolescents with Brain Injuries 79
Mr.O 79
Jim 83
Gary 86
Mrs. V 88
Mrs. J 89
Mrs. M 89
Assessment of Brain-Injury Patients 93
Uses of Humor 95
Lethal Humor 96
Disparaging Humor 97
Resilient Humor 99
Ambivalent or Unclear Humor 99
Playful Humor 101
Results 103
Developmental Art Procedures 105
Objectives 105
Developing Ability to Sequence and Conserve 106
Developing Concepts of Space 108
12-Session Art Program 111
PART Ill
QUANTITATIVE STUDIES
Atypical Children, Adolescents, and Adults 125
Adolescents and Adults in Detention Facilities 125
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Contents IX
Clinically Depressed Children, Adolescents, and Adults 133
Children with Auditory and Language Impairments 138
Learning Disabled Children and Adolescents 144
Age, Gender, and Cultural Differences Among Typical
Children, Adolescents, and Adults 149
Background 149
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Principal
Subjects and Environments 150
Gender Differences in the Self-Images, Autonomous
Subjects, and Interrelationships Portrayed by Children 151
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Self
and Others 152
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes toward
the Opposite Sex 157
Fantasies about Food and Eating 161
Gender Differences in the Spatial Abilities of Adolescents 164
Gender Parity and Disparity in Performing Spatial Tasks 166
Comparing Attitudes and Spatial Abilities of Aging and
Young Adults 169
Differences among Aging and Young Men and Women in
Attitudes and Cognition 171
Cultural Differences and Similarities 177
Concluding Observations 179
References 180
Index 185
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