Young Children And Their Drawings

Joseph di Leo

1. Introduction 2. Procedure 3. Developmental Sequences 4. Earliest Drawings: the kinesthetic stage 5. Transition from Kinesthetic to Representational Drawing 6. Representation not Reproduction 7. The Human Figure Evolves: primacy of the head 8. The Human Figure Evolves: the trunk appears 9. The Human Figure Evolves: the mixed profile; the profile 10. Fluctuations 11. Drawing What is Known to Exist 12. Past and Present 13. What is Wrong in Children's Drawings 14. Drawing Before Writing 15. Development of Graphic Expression in Mankind and in the Individual 16. Male and Female: awareness of sex PART TWO: The Unusual and Deviant 17. Drawings as Diagnostic Aids: Drawing the family 18. Omission and Overemphasis 19. The Mentally Subnormal 20. Cerebral Palsy 21. Syndromes of Cerebral Dysfunction 22. Communication Disorders: sensori-neural hearing loss 23. Communication Disorders: central language disorders 24. Communication Disorders: as manifestations of personality disorders 25. Use of Children's Drawings in the Study of Personality 26. Personality Disorders 27. Conclusion Appendix Norms for the Imitation and Copying of Geometric Forms